Homespun Movement

Examples of Homespun Movement in the following topics:

• Revolutionary Women

  • Women worked in the Homespun Movement.
  • Nonimportation and nonconsumption became major weapons in the arsenal of the American resistance movement against the British.
  • The nonimportation movement brought many rural communities into the political movement.
  • In addition to the boycotts of British textiles, the Homespun Movement served the Continental Army by producing needed clothing and blankets.

• Women in the Revolution

  • Nonimportation and non-consumption became major weapons in the arsenal of the American resistance movement against British taxation without representation with women playing a major role in this method of defiance by denouncing silks, satins, and other imported luxuries in favor of homespun clothing, generally made in spinning and quilting bees.
  • As a result of nonimportation, many rural communities that were previously only peripherally involved in the political movements of the day were brought "into the growing community of resistance" because of the appeal "to the traditional values" of rural life.
  • In addition to boycotts of British goods, Patriot women participated in the Homespun Movement.
  • The practices of the Homespun Movement extended beyond cloth goods.

• Nonconsumption and the Daughters of Liberty

  • The Daughters of Liberty and the nonconsumption agreements were two colonial movements created in response to British taxation.
  • Two colonial movements, the Daughters of Liberty and the nonconsumption agreements, were created in response to British taxation such as the Stamp Act .
  • The goal of these movements was to make the colonies less dependent on British imports and other goods.
  • The Daughters of Liberty used their traditional skills to weave and spin yarn and wool into fabric, known as "homespun".
  • In the countryside, while Patriots supported the non-importation movements of 1765 and 1769, the Daughters of Liberty continued to support American resistance.

• The Townshend Acts

  • Along with boycotts, two colonial movements, the Daughters of Liberty and the nonconsumption agreements, were created in response to British taxation.
  • The goal of these movements was to make the colonies less dependent on British imports and other goods.
  • However, the non-importation movement was not as effective as promoters had hoped.
  • The boycott movement began to fail by 1770 and came to an end in 1771.
  • The Daughters of Liberty used their traditional skills to weave and spin yarn and wool into fabric, known as "homespun".

• The Farmer's Alliance

  • The Farmers' Alliance was an organized agrarian economic movement amongst U.S. farmers that flourished in the 1880s.
  • Political activists in the movement also made attempts to unite the two alliance organizations, along with the Knights of Labor and the Colored Farmers' National Alliance and Cooperative Union, into a common movement.
  • The alliance movement as a whole reached over 750,000 by 1890.
  • The alliance failed as an economic movement, but it is regarded by historians as engendering a "movement culture" among the rural poor.
  • As the focus of the Farmers' Movement shifted into politics, the Farmer's Alliance faded away.

• 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.
  • From this movement arose La Raza Unida, a political party that attracted many Mexican American college students.

• The Debate over Preparedness

  • The Preparedness Movement was a frenzy of public concern over the lack of preparedness of the U.S. military, led by Roosevelt and Wood.
  • This proposal ultimately failed, but it fostered the Plattsburg Movement.
  • Several organizations were formed around the Preparedness Movement and held parades and organized opposition to Wilson's policies.
  • The Democratic Party (especially Wilson) was also opposed to the Preparedness Movement, believing it to be a threat.
  • s Preparedness Movement.

• The Agrarian and Populist Movements

  • The Farmers Movement was, in American political history, the general name for a movement between 1867 and 1896.
  • There were three periods of the Farmers Movement, popularly known as the Grange, Alliance, and Populist Movements.
  • The Alliance movement reached its greatest power about 1890.
  • The movement contributed the impetus for all of the following:
  • In short, the movement lessened rural isolation and created many opportunities for farmers.

• Art Movements of the 1920s

  • Art Deco was a dominant design style of the 1920s artistic era that also was influenced by the Dada, Expressionist and Surrealist movements.
  • The movement also informed political thought and practice, philosophy, and social theory.
  • Many Surrealist artists and writers regarded their work as the material expression of the movement's philosophy.
  • The movement's leader, French anarchist and anti-fascist writer André Breton, emphasized that Surrealism was, above all, a revolutionary movement.
  • In 1924 he published the Surrealist Manifesto, which called the movement “pure psychic automatism.”

• 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.
  • As the movement began to grow and prosper, these dramas became more popular among the general public.
  • The Civil War dealt the movement a crippling blow.
  • Summarize the central commitments of and factions within the nineteenth-century temperance movement