Examples of Plattsburg Movement in the following topics:
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- This proposal ultimately failed,
but fostered the Plattsburg Movement, a series of summer training schools for
reserve military officers located in Plattsburg, N.Y.
- The Plattsburg Movement, which
hosted approximately 40,000 men in 1915 and 1916, was aimed at social elites,
ignoring talented working class youths and subsequently failing to generate support
among the middle class leadership in small town America.
- Democrats
were also rooted in localism that appreciated the work of the National Guard,
and Democratic voters were inherently hostile to the rich and powerful represented
by Republicans and elitist initiatives such as the Plattsburg Movement.
- Summer camps on the Plattsburg
model were authorized for new officers, while the House of Representatives
gutted the naval plans as well, defeating a "big navy" plan.
- Many groups were opposed
to the Preparedness Movement, such as the Socialist Party, seen here organizing
a parade of opposition.
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- 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.
- For instance, suggestions that talented working class youths be invited to Plattsburg were ignored.
- Summer camps on the Plattsburg model were authorized for new officers.
- s Preparedness Movement.
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- The Farmers' Alliance was an organized agrarian economic movement among 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 more than 750,000 members 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 Farmers' Alliance faded away.
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- 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.
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- 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.
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- 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.”
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- 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
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- The Civil Rights Movement or 1960s Civil Rights Movement (sometimes referred to as the "African-American Civil Rights Movement" although the term "African American" was not widely used in the 1950s and '60s) encompasses social movements in the United States whose goals were to end racial segregation and discrimination against African Americans and to secure legal recognition and federal protection of the citizenship rights enumerated in the Constitution and federal law.
- The movement was characterized by major campaigns of civil resistance.
- While not the first sit-in of the Civil Rights Movement, the Greensboro sit-ins were an instrumental action, and also the most well-known sit-ins of the Civil Rights Movement.
- Many popular representations of the movement are centered on the leadership and philosophy of Martin Luther King, Jr., who won the 1964 Nobel Peace Prize for his role in the movement.
- Summarize the African American Civil Rights Movement of the 1950s and 60s.
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- The movement for women's suffrage gained new vitality during the Progressive Era.
- Much of the movement's energy, however, went toward working for suffrage on a state-by-state basis.
- The reform campaigns of the Progressive Era strengthened the suffrage movement.
- The burgeoning Socialist movement also aided the drive for women's suffrage in some areas.
- Describe the women's suffrage movement at the end of the nineteenth century
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- The Civil Rights Movement (1955–1968) refers to U.S. social movements aimed at exposing institutional racism and achieving liberation for African Americans.
- The Civil Rights Movement (1955–1968) refers to the social movements led by African Americans in the United States aimed at exposing rampant (and often legalized) racial discrimination and achieving equal rights and liberation for African Americans.
- The movement was characterized by major campaigns of civil resistance.
- The growing African-American civil rights movement also spawned civil rights movements for other marginalized groups during the 1960s.
- Outline the course of the Civil Rights Movement of the 1950s and 1960s