American Plan

(noun)

The American Plan is the term that most U.S. employers in the 1920s used to describe their policy of refusing to negotiate with unions.

Related Terms

Examples of American Plan in the following topics:

  • The Role of the Government

    • The American System was an economic plan that played a prominent role in American policy during the first half of the nineteenth century.
    • The American System, originally called "The American Way," was an economic plan that played a prominent role in American policy during the first half of the nineteenth century.
    • Another key goal of the American System was the development of a strong central bank.
    • Henry Clay says "Walk in and see the new improved grand original American System!
    • He was the primary advocate of the American System during the Market Revolution.

  • The Truman Doctrine and the Marshall Plan

    • The Marshall Plan (officially the European Recovery Program) was an American initiative to aid Western Europe, in which the United States gave $13 billion in economic support to help rebuild Western European economies after the end of World War II.
    • This was on top of $13 billion in American aid already given.
    • American Republicans hostile to the plan had also gained seats in the 1950 Congressional elections, and conservative opposition to the plan was revived.
    • Thus the plan ended in 1951, though various other forms of American aid to Europe continued afterwards.
    • Note the pivotal position of the American flag.

  • The Albany Congress and the Intercolonial Defense

    • In 1754, the British government asked colonial representatives to meet in Albany, New York, to develop a treaty with American Indians and plan the defense of the colonies against France.
    • The original plan was heavily debated by all who attended the conference, and numerous modifications were proposed until the plan proceeded to be passed unanimously.
    • The plan called for a single executive, known as a president general, to be appointed and supported by the Crown; the president general would be responsible for American Indian relations, military preparedness, and execution of laws regulating various trade and financial activities.
    • The plan was also rejected by the Colonial Office.
    • It later became a symbol of colonial freedom during the American Revolutionary War.

  • Civil Rights Under Nixon

    • A majority of fearful white Americans began to prioritize "law and order" over the advancements of civil rights.
    • The task force's plan made federal aid and official meetings with President Nixon available as rewards for school committees who complied with desegregation plans.
    • By September of 1970, fewer than 10% of African American children were attending segregated schools.
    • The Philadelphia Plan was based on an earlier plan developed in 1967 by the Office of Federal Contract Compliance and the Philadelphia Federal Executive Board.
    • The plan was quickly extended to other cities.

  • Reaction to the Holocaust

    • The plan was introduced as a bill by Senator William King (Utah) and Democratic Representative Franck Havenner (California), both Democrats.
    • The Alaska proposal won the support of theologian Paul Tillich, the Federal Council of Churches and the American Friends Service Committee.
    • But the plan won little support from American Jews, with the exception of the Labor Zionists of America.
    • Most Jews agreed with Rabbi Stephen Wise, president of the American Jewish Congress, that adoption of the Alaska proposal would deliver "a wrong and hurtful impression...that Jews are taking over some part of the country for settlement. " The plan was dealt a severe blow when Roosevelt told Ickes that he insisted on limiting the number of refugees to 10,000 a year for five years, and with a further restriction that Jews not make up more than 10% of the refugees.
    • Roosevelt never mentioned the Alaska proposal in public, and without his support the plan died.

  • American Indians and the New Nation

    • The treaty served as a supposed peace treaty between the Iroquois and the Americans, yet it effectively procured more land from the American Indians and into the hands of the US government.
    • The cultural assimilation of American Indians was an assimilation effort by the United States to transform American Indian culture to European-American culture between the years of 1790 and 1920.
    • Americanization policies were based on the idea that when indigenous people learned US ("American") customs and values, they would be able to merge tribal traditions with American culture and peacefully join the majority of society.
    • Washington developed a six-point plan for this assimilation process that included:
    • A map showing land purchases from Native Americans in Pennsylvania (1682–1792).

  • The Healthcare Plan of 1993

    • Its goal was to come up with a comprehensive plan to provide universal health care for all Americans, which was to be a cornerstone of the administration's first-term agenda.
    • During this period, over 37 million Americans were completely without health insurance.
    • The Clinton health plan required each U.S. citizen and permanent resident alien to become enrolled in a qualified health plan and forbade their dis-enrollment until covered by another plan.
    • The plan became more controversial due to the First Lady's participation in the secret proceedings of the Health Care Task Force, which led to litigation from the Association of American Physicians and Surgeons, and due to the Act's preponderance of red tape.
    • The outlook for the plan looked good in 1993; it had the support of a number of institutions like the American Medical Association and the Health Insurance Association of America.

  • Gabriel's Rebellion

    • Gabriel's Rebellion was a planned slave revolt in Virginia in 1800 that was quelled before it could begin.
    • Although plans of this uprising were leaked prior to their execution, the event highlighted the potential for slave-organized resistance and revealed inconsistencies within American ideals of freedom.
    • It also had a massive impact on the treatment of slaves in the American South.
    • This prompted an influx of both zealous slave owners and free African Americans, and the very existence of free African Americans in Richmond challenged the condition of Virginia as a slave state.
    • After plans for the rebellion were quelled, many slave holders greatly restricted the slaves' rights of travel.

  • The Marshall Plan and Molotov Plan

  • Pontiac's Uprising

    • While the French had long cultivated alliances among certain of the American Indian tribes, the British post-war approach was to subordinate the tribes, and tensions quickly rose between the American Indians and the British.
    • One of his policies was to prohibit gift exchange between the American Indians and the British.
    • Scholars believe that rather than being planned in advance, the uprising spread as word of Pontiac's actions at Fort Detroit traveled throughout the pays d'en haut, inspiring already discontented American Indians to join the revolt.
    • Relations between British colonists and American Indians deteriorated further during Pontiac's Rebellion, and the British government concluded that colonists and American Indians must be kept apart.
    • For American Indians, Pontiac's War demonstrated the possibilities of pan-tribal cooperation in resisting Anglo-American colonial expansion.