larger cities and towns but none of them ever grew into full-fledged movements that made it to other cities and states. Wisconsin took the lead in this movement in 1900 when Robert M. La Follette won the governorship at the head of an insurgent republican party that wanted to reform railroad taxation‚ railroad regulation‚ and the direct primary. From that moment on Wisconsin would remain at the head of the movement. The timing of this was one of the big factors that contributed to Wisconsin’s success
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the revolution in Russia happened. Vladimir L. Lenin took over conquering with the Red Army and created the Soviet Union. When communism took over the U.S.S.R‚ some Americans were frightened while others began to form Communist Parties within the U.S. As the Communist parties grew violent‚ in 1919‚ a plan was created in which bombs were mailed to government officials. One of the attacked‚ A. Mitchell Palmer‚ became a main advocate against anti-communists (Anticommunism). Using the wartime laws he arrested
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| | Most tend to think of technology as iPods‚ DVD and the internet but technology much more. For thousands of years‚ technology was the means by which people secured food and shelter‚ established social order and shaped and sustained their cultures (Crystal‚ 2006). Over the last few years‚ technology has been rapidly changing and expanding in every
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Brian Sandoval 11/15/10 AP U.S. History Ch: 16 The Union Reconstructed 1. Explain how blacks responded to their former masters after the Civil War had ended. After the Civil War had ended‚ blacks responded to their former masters in two different ways. They would either return to their former masters for work and every time they would leave the plantation they would go farther claiming they didn’t want to stay on the plantation forever. This caused them to continue to have communication
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Political Party Assignment Green party is a political organization which has grown year by year since 20 years ago. Green party formed in 1984. At that time the name of corporation was “the Committees of Correspondence”. They changed the name of their party to Green Committees of Correspondence in 1989. Finally‚ in 1991 the group name became Greens/Green Party USA. The Green‘s platform is organized in a direction which gives the priority to environment. Greens believe that in order to have a green
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the prohibition was ridiculed by many different parties the overall mood of the decade could not be brought down. The war was over and many families were reunited again. Patriotic feelings were obvious in the masses and the people as a nation had a new sense of pride being one of the strongest countries in the world. The start of the decade also brought with it the election of a new president. The two candidates were Warren G. Harding for the Republican nominee and James A. Cox for the Democratic nominee
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political career‚ delivered a hard (and some would say low) blow back on his political opponents (especially Dwight Eisenhower‚ the Republican nominee for the presidency‚ whom Nixon was running with in 1952)‚ and seriously embarrassed his wife. Possible subtopics: • Richard Nixon’s early political career • Nixon’s relationship with Eisenhower • American political parties • Presidential elections and campaigning • Campaign finance • American media • Television and American society • Public
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Federalist vs. Republican-Democratic Back when George Washington was first elected president‚ there were no political parties. Soon after‚ in 1796‚ the Federalist party‚ founded by Alexander Hamilton‚ and the Democratic-Republican party‚ founded by Thomas Jefferson and James Madison‚ were formed. The point of these parties was to form alliances with those who share the same beliefs as you. If you wanted something done with the country‚ you needed some help‚ and joining a political party is just the
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and get reconstruction completed. The moderate republicans wanted the same things as the radical republicans but did not want to give the southern blacks too much power. They thought that giving the blacks in the south the power to vote that it would give an unfair advantage to the south. However‚ many moderate republicans did think that the south was too hard on their black populations and wanted some form of regulation. As a moderate republican they did not want to clash with the president or
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with the deadly disease known as HIV‚ asked the Republican party‚ to lift their silence on the epidemic that has struck the US. HIV is an epidemic that strikes all races‚ genders‚ and people. She tells that “two hundred thousand Americans are dead or dying” due to this disease. The Republicans like to think that this disease is strictly affecting a certain group of people‚ they believe the disease only strikes certain people. Specifically‚ the republicans believe the HIV disease attacks. Fishers main
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