Restoration Movement

(noun)

A Christian development that began on the American frontier during the Second Great Awakening of the early nineteenth century.

Related Terms

Examples of Restoration Movement in the following topics:

  • Jim Crow and the Civil Rights Movement

    • The Civil Rights Movement aimed to outlaw racial discrimination against black Americans, particularly in the South.
    • The African American Civil Rights Movement refers to the social movements in the United States aimed at outlawing racial discrimination against black Americans and restoring voting rights to them.
    • The Civil Rights Movement generally lasted from 1955 to 1968 and was particularly focused in the American South.
    • This mass action approach typified the movement from 1960 to 1968.
    • Civil Rights Movement.

  • Latino Rights

    • The Chicano Movement was the part of the Mexican Civil Rights Movement that sought political and social empowerment for Mexican Americans.
    • The Mexican American Movement was part of the American Civil Rights Movement of the 1960s and 1970s seeking political empowerment and social inclusion for Mexican Americans.
    • Like the African American movement, the Mexican American civil rights movement won its earliest victories in the federal courts.
    • The equivalent of the Black Power movement among Mexican Americans was the Chicano Movement.
    • The Chicano Movement encompassed many issues, including restoration of land grants, farm workers' rights, improved education, voting and political rights, and an emerging awareness of collective history.

  • The Temperance Movement

    • The movement advocated temperance, or levelness, rather than abstinence.
    • The movement gained momentum to the point that it inspired an entire genre of theatre.
    • The Drunkard follows the typical format of a temperance drama: The main character has an alcohol-induced downfall, and he restores his life from disarray after he denounces drinking for good at the play's end.
    • The Civil War dealt the movement a crippling blow.
    • Summarize the central commitments of and factions within the nineteenth-century temperance movement

  • The Meiji Restoration

  • Examples of Social Movements

  • The Devolution Revolution

    • The devolution revolution was a movement started by Reagan in the 1980s that involves the gradual return of power to the states.
    • The primary objective of New Federalism, unlike that of the eighteenth-century political philosophy of Federalism, is the restoration to the states of some of the autonomy and power that they lost to the federal government as a consequence of President Franklin Roosevelt's New Deal.
    • Unlike the states' rights movement of the mid-20th century which centered around the civil rights movement, the modern federalist movement is concerned far more with expansive interpretations of the Commerce Clause, as in the areas of medical marijuana (Gonzalez v.

  • American Indian Rights

    • The fight for American Indian rights expanded in the 1960s, resulting in the creation of the American Indian Movement.
    • Many of the demands of the movement related to the U.S. government's obligation to honor its treaties with the sovereign American Indian nations.
    • One of the primary advocacy organizations for American Indian Rights, the American Indian Movement (AIM), was also formed during the 1960s.
    • The list addressed the failed responsibilities of the U.S. government and demanded the restoration of the 110 million acres of land taken away from Native Nations by the U.S.; the restoration of terminated Native Nation rights; the abolition of the Bureau of Indian Affairs; the establishment of immunity of Native Nations from state commerce regulation, taxes, and trade restrictions; the protection of American Indian religious freedom and cultural integrity; and affirmation of the health, housing, employment, economic development, and education for all American Indian people.
    • Explain the Native American rights movement of the 1960s and 1970s

  • Louis XVIII and the Bourbon Restoration

  • Medical Solutions: Colligative Properties

    • Medical solutions must be tailored to restore and maintain a proper homeostatic environment.
    • The saline solution is expected to restore the salinity levels in the blood.
    • Its name is derived from osmosis, which is the net movement of solvent molecules through a partially permeable membrane; the molecules travel from a region of higher solute concentration to a region with lower solute concentration.

  • Work

    • In this case the dot product $F·dx = F \cdot \cos \theta \cdot dx$ , where $\theta$ is the angle between the force vector and the direction of movement.
    • The spring applies a restoring force ($-k \cdot x$) on the object located at $x$.
    • Work done by the restoring force leads to increase in the kinetic energy of the object.