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Taft's political base was the conservative business community which largely supported peace movements before 1914. The businessmen believed that economic rivalries were cause of war, and that extensive trade led to an interdependent world that would make war a very expensive and useless anachronism.
1917 – Temperance movement leads to prohibition laws in 29 states; 1917–1919 – Silent Sentinels hold a vigil outside the White House gates in favor of women's suffrage, a nearly two–and–a–half year demonstration organized by Alice Paul and the National Woman's Party
Social movements are groupings of individuals or organizations which focus on political or social issues. This list excludes the following: Artistic movements: see list of art movements. Independence movements: see lists of active separatist movements and list of historical separatist movements
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.
The socialists had lost a major ally in the IWW Wobblies and their free speech had been restricted, if not denied. Immigrants, a major base of the socialist movement, were discriminated against and looked down upon. Eugene V. Debs—the charismatic leader of the socialists—was in prison, along with hundreds of fellow dissenters.
1900: The War of the Golden Stool was a resistance by the Asante of West Africa against the imposition of colonial rule by the United Kingdom. 1901–1936: Holy Man's Rebellion. 1903: The Ilinden–Preobrazhenie Uprising breaks out in the Ottoman Empire. 1904: Revolution of 1904; 1904: A liberal revolution in Paraguay. 1904–1908: Macedonian ...
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)
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 ...