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    The Populist Movement

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    infrastructure to combat environmental destruction. The Newlands Act of 1902 was intended to create irrigation projects from proceeds gained from the irrigation projects. An area of conservation legislation that was different from other areas of social and political improvement was the idea that the changes were crafted to be lasting and adaptive. While reforms such as the 19th amendment‚ Clayton Anti-trust act‚ and the {}{}{}}{}{}{}{}{} were short-term solutions that never aimed to achieve comprehensive

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    chipko movement

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    INTRODUCTION The name of the Chipko moment originated from the word ’embrace’ as the villagers used to hug the trees and protect them from wood cutters from cutting them. The movement practiced Gandhian methods of satyagraha and non-violent resistance‚ to protect them from being felled. The modern Chipko movement started in the early 1970s in the GarhwalHimalayas of Uttarakhand‚ then in Uttar Pradesh with growing awareness of rapid deforestation. It was the strong uprising against those people

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    Khilafat Movement

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    caused great resentment amongst the Muslims & so KHilafat movement was founded to save the Caliph. It is also a fact that Khilafat movement was also formed because of deep seated Muslim distrust of British. Afghanistan & persia were ruled by Russia & British according to their will. The MUSlims in the subcontinent feared that the bristish would take over Turkey & thus would rule other Muslim states such as Makkah & Madinah. So this movement was formed as a result. Gandhi along with Congress wanted

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    The Temperance Movement

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    The Temperance Movement occurred in the United States from the 19th to 20th century. The purpose of this movement was to encourage moderate consumption of alcohol or for complete abstinence. This movement was mostly sponsored by women and their children. It was also heard from preachers at the pulpit. This movement began in Europe‚ most notably Ireland. It quickly spread throughout Europe and the United States. The first pledge of abstinence came from preachers‚ the most notable of whom was John

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    The Temperance Movement

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    Temperance as a movement‚ started in the early 19th century. Before this‚ although there were diatribes published against drunkenness and excess‚[1] total abstinence from alcohol was very rarely advocated or practiced. There was also a concentration on hard spirits rather than on total abstinence from alcohol and on moral reform rather than legal measures against alcohol.[2] An early Temperance movement started during the American revolution in Connecticut‚ Virginia and New York State‚ with farmers

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    Reform Movements

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    During the Second Great Awakening‚ a mass revival of American society took place. Reformers of every kind emerged to ameliorate women’s rights‚ education and religious righteousness. At the forefront of the movement were the temperance reformers who fought for a change in alcoholism‚ and abolitionist who strived for the downfall of slavery. Temperance reformers were mostly women and religious leaders. Lyman Beecher‚ a well known preacher and temperance leader during this time‚ talked about how

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    HIS 326 Final Paper Social Justice in America: Rauschenbusch’s Social Gospel Movement and Comparisons to Marx Capitalism is the only economic structure and way of life most Americans and even most people in developed countries around the world today know. But capitalism isn’t the only economic ideal out there and not everyone would agree with its foundations and principles. Capitalism is a system of economics in which individual private ownership is central and the quest for profit and

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    During the Progressive Movement‚ alcoholism became a major issue. Many people‚ especially Christians believed alcohol was damaging to families‚ resulted in physical abuse‚ poor health‚ and increased poverty. In the 1820s‚ a Temperance Movement was started to encourage Americans to reduce the amount of alcohol that was being consumed. The Second Great Awakening is one cause for the movement. It focused mainly on Christians‚ they wanted our jobs‚ education‚ and family to reflect in good morals. The

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    Mark Mazza Junior Seminar New York Times Article January 28‚ 2009 Civil Rights Movement Effects American Families The New York Times Article‚ "Proposal to bus Negroes into Scarsdale Schools Splits Village‚" was written on December 3rd‚ 1969. The article addresses the most prominent issue of the era; Civil Rights. In the article‚ the reader learns of a plan to bus 60 Negro children from Mount Vernon into the predominantly white Scarsdale public school system. The Scarsdale School Board‚ which

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    American Reform Movements

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    American Reform Movements From 1790 to 1860 reforms emerged in the United States in attempt to create a more advanced society. Many of the movements that were attempted failed due to either entrenched social conservatism or weaknesses in the movements themselves. New religions started to emerge based on Christianity‚ but shaped to their preferences. Along with new religions were Utopias that were part of cooperative‚ communistic‚ or “communitarian” nature. The temperance movement started to rise

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