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By the start of the 20th century, a middle class had developed that was weary of both the business elite and the radical political movements of farmers and laborers in the Midwest and West. The progressives argued the need for government regulation of business practices to ensure competition and free enterprise.
March 4, 1917 – President Wilson and Vice President Marshall begin their second terms; 1917 – U.S. enters World War I; 1917 – Espionage and Sedition Acts; 1917 – Lansing–Ishii Agreement; 1917 – National Hockey League formed; 1917 – U.S. Virgin Islands purchased from Denmark; 1917 – Temperance movement leads to prohibition laws ...
Permanent ownership of the Philippines was a major issue in the 1900 presidential election. William Jennings Bryan, although strongly supportive of the war against Spain denounced the permanent acquisition of the Philippines which was strongly defended by Republicans, especially the Vice-Presidential nominee Theodore Roosevelt. [ 24 ]
The progressive movement enlisted support from both major parties and from minor parties as well. One leader, the Democratic William Jennings Bryan, had won both the Democratic Party and the Populist Party nominations in 1896. At the time, the great majority of other major leaders had been opposed to populism.
This party system marked the first in a series of political realignments, a process in which a prominent third party coalition, often one that wins >10% of the popular vote in multiple states in a presidential election, realigns into one of the major parties, allowing that major party to dominate the federal government and/or presidency for the ...
January 2: Beginning of the perestroika ("restructuring"), a political movement for reformation within the Communist Party of the Soviet Union during the 1980s associated with Gorbachev and his glasnost ("openness") policy reform. January 13: Lee Teng-hui takes control of Taiwan and oversee end of martial law and full democratization of island.
Most of the 13,000 striking controllers defied the back-to-work order, and were dismissed by President Reagan on 5 August. [49] Reagan ordered them to leave. Largest labor rally in United States history broke out in protest of Reagan's order. [49] 1981 (United States) Baseball Players' Strike occurred. [49] October 1982 (United States)
The right to assemble is recognized as a human right and protected in the First Amendment of the US Constitution under the clause, "Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of ...