Examples of reform in the following topics:
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- The Stalwarts, a faction of the Republican Party in the late nineteenth century, opposed civil service reform and favored machine politics.
- Civil service reform in the United States was a major national issue in the late 1800s and a major state issue in the early 1900s.
- Foremost among his enemies was New York Senator Roscoe Conkling, who fought Hayes's reform efforts at every turn.
- To show his commitment to reform, Hayes appointed one of the best-known advocates of reform, Carl Schurz, to be secretary of the Interior and asked Schurz and William M.
- For the remainder of his term, Hayes pressed Congress to enact permanent reform legislation, even using his last annual message to Congress on December 6, 1880, to appeal for reform.
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- Political corruption was a central issue, which reformers hoped to solve through civil service reforms at the national, state and local level, replacing political hacks with professional technocrats.
- Illinois modernized its bureaucracy in 1917 under Frank Lowden, but Chicago held out against civil service reform until the 1970s.
- Furthermore, racism often pervaded most progressive reform efforts, as evidenced by the suffrage movement.
- At the local, municipal, and state level, various Progressive reformers advocated for disparate goals that ranged as wide as prison reform, education, government reorganization, urban improvement, prohibition, female suffrage, birth control, improved working conditions, labor reform, and child labor reform.
- Although significant advancements were made in social justice and reform on a case by case basis, there was little local effort to coordinate reformers on a wide platform of issues.
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- During his first term as President, Wilson focused on three types of reform: Tariff Reform, Banking Reform, and Business Reform.
- During his first term as President, Wilson focused on three types of reform: tariff reform, business reform, and banking reform.
- Wilson's tariff reform was largely achieved through the passage of the Underwood Tariff Act of 1913.
- Wilson spoke only briefly, but made it clear that, in order to avoid repeating the embarrassment of the thwarted reform of 1894, tariff reform was essential.
- Wilson's banking reform was most notably accomplished by the 1913 creation of the Federal Reserve System.
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- As president, Chester Arthur continued many of the reforms of his predecessor, though he had benefited from the spoils system himself.
- In 1880, Garfield's predecessor, President Hayes, stopped the implementation of any new "star route" contracts in a reform effort.
- However, reformers of the time criticized the patronage structure and the moiety system as corrupt.
- Despite his previous support of the patronage system, Arthur, nevertheless, became an ardent supporter of civil service reform as president.
- Assess the significance of civil service reform under the Garfield and Arthur administrations
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- Although the Progressive Era was a period of social progress, it also had multiple, contradictory goals that impeded reform efforts.
- Although the Progressive Era was a period of broad reform movements and social progress, it was also characterized by loose, multiple, and contradictory goals that impeded the efforts of reformers and often pitted political leaders against one another, most drastically in the Republican Party.
- At the local, municipal, and state level, various Progressive reformers advocated for disparate goals that ranged as wide as prison reform, education, government reorganization, urban improvement, prohibition, female suffrage, birth control, improved working conditions, labor reform, and child labor reform.
- Although significant advancements were made in social justice and reform on a case by case basis, there was little local effort to coordinate reformers on a wide platform of issues.
- Racism often pervaded most progressive reform efforts, as evidenced by the suffrage movement.
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- After 1900 the Progressive Era brought political and social reforms, such as new roles for education and a higher status for women.
- After 1900, the Progressive Era brought political and social reforms, such as new roles for education and a higher status for women, as well as modernizing many areas of government and society.
- Beside presidents such as Theodore Roosevelt and Woodrow Wilson , she was the most prominent reformer of the Progressive Era and helped turn the nation to issues of concern to mothers, such as the needs of children, public health, and world peace.
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- The Pendleton Civil Service Reform Act in ended the spoils system at the federal level in 1883.
- Civil Service Reform in the U.S. was a major national issue in the late 1800s a major state issue in the early 1900s.
- Garfield by a rejected office-seeker in 1881, the call for civil service reform intensified.
- The Pendleton Civil Service Reform Act in ended the spoils system at the federal level in 1883 and created a bipartisan Civil Service Commission to evaluate job candidates on a nonpartisan merit basis.
- The Progressive Era political reforms led to structural changes in administrative departments and changes in the way the government managed public affairs.
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- Civil service reform, pension reform, and the "Billion Dollar Congress" characterized the Harrison administration's Republican reforms.
- Civil service reform was a prominent issue following Harrison's election.
- Harrison appointed Theodore Roosevelt and Hugh Smith Thompson, both reformers, to the Civil Service Commission, but otherwise did little to further the reform cause.
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- Progressive-Era reformers sought to use the federal government to make sweeping reforms in politics, education, economics, and society.
- American progressivism is defined as a broadly-based reform movement that reached the height of influence in the early 20th century and was largely middle class and reformist in nature.
- Emerging at the end of the 19th century, progressive reformers established much of the tone of American politics throughout the first half of the century.
- The result was "municipal administration," which effectively managed legal processes, market transactions, bureaucratic administration, and urban reform.
- Progressives turned to educational researchers to evaluate the reform agenda by measuring numerous aspects of education, later leading to standardized testing.
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- Clinton appointed First Lady Hillary Rodham Clinton to lead a task force on healthcare reform during his first term in office.
- However, opposition to the reform plan was heavy from conservatives, libertarians, and the health insurance industry.
- Once in office, President Clinton quickly set up the Task Force on National Health Care Reform, headed by the First Lady.
- Bill Clinton made health care reform one of the highest priorities of his administration.
- He asked the First Lady to chair the Task Force on National Health Care Reform.