Examples of Alliance for Progress in the following topics:
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- Kennedy's most well known act regarding Latin America was the Alliance for Progress, which aimed to establish economic cooperation between the U.S. and Latin America.
- The Alliance for Progress achieved a short-lived public relations success.
- It is often argued that the program failed for three reasons: (1) not all Latin American nations were willing to enact the exact reforms the U.S. demanded in exchange for their assistance; (2) presidents after Kennedy were less supportive of the program; and (3) the amount of money was not enough for an entire hemisphere - $20 billion averaged out to only $10 per person in Latin America.
- The address detailed how American foreign policy should be conducted toward African nations, noting a hint of support for modern African nationalism by saying that "For we, too, founded a new nation on revolt from colonial rule."
- Kennedy at La Morita, Venezuela, during an official meeting for the Alliance for Progress in 1961.
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- In the South, the agenda centered on demands for government control of transportation and communication in order to break the power of corporate monopolies.
- Meanwhile, the Northern Alliance stressed the demand for free coinage of large amounts of silver.
- In 1889–1890, the alliance was reborn as the Populist Party.
- The convention produced the "Ocala Demands," which included a call for the abolition of national banks, an increase in circulating money, free silver, industrial regulations, a graduated income tax, lower tariffs, and the direct election of U.S. senators.
- For both groups, social events helped cement political ties.
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- The Progressive Movement influenced U.S. policy in World War I through its
ideals of morality, efficiency and democracy.
- While
many historians disagree over the exact dates of the Progressive Era, most see
World War I as a globalized expression of the American movement, with Wilson's
fight for the League of Nations envisioned
in his Fourteen Points as
its climax.
- This came to a bloody climax when these alliances
provoked the start of World War I by drawing all the great nations of the
continent into conflict with each other.
- The most important proponent of
this concept was President Woodrow Wilson, who in 1917 won the support of a
large number of these moralists by framing World War I as "a war to make
the world safe for democracy" and the time to fight for Progressive ideals.
- Woodrow Wilson, one of the most prominent Progressives, framed World War I in moral and democratic terms.
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- Among the progressive movement's early actions were attempts to give the general populace more power over legislation.
- Many states enacted factory inspection laws; by 1916, nearly two-thirds of the states required compensation for the victims in industrial accidents.
- In 1912, the United States Children's Bureau was created in order to investigate "all matters pertaining to the welfare of children and child life among all classes of our people. " An alliance of labor and humanitarian groups induced some state legislatures to grant aid to mothers with dependent children.
- Under pressure from the National Child Labor Committee, nearly every state set a minimum age for employment and limited hours that employers could make children work.
- Unlike the AFL, which was a group composed of separate unions for each different trade (craft unionism), the IWW supported the concept of industrial unionism, in which all workers in a given industry are organized in a single union regardless of each worker's particular trade.
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- The Progressives argued the need for government regulation of business practices to ensure competition and free enterprise.
- After experimenting in the early 1900s with cooperation with business in the National Civic Federation, after 1906, it turned to a working political alliance with the Democratic party.
- The alliance was especially important in the larger industrial cities.
- The rapid growth of industry called for large numbers of new workers.
- Other groups, such as the Prohibitionists, opposed immigration because it was a base of support for the saloons.
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- The Treaty of Alliance with France was a defensive agreement between France and the United States, as shown in .
- This reluctance to send military aid to the Americans, however, changed with Washington's defeat of Britain at the Battle of Saratoga in 1777: when France re-initiated negotiations with the United States for a formal alliance that resulted in both the Treaty of Amity and Commerce and the Treaty of Alliance.
- The Treaty of Alliance was, in effect, an insurance policy for France that guaranteed the support of the United States if Britain broke the current peace they had with the French, "either by direct hostilities, or by (hindering) her commerce and navigation," as a result of the signing of the Treaty of Amity and Commerce.
- The treaty outlined the terms and conditions of this military alliance and established requirements for the signing of future peace treaties to end hostilities with the British.
- After signing the treaty, French supplies of arms, ammunition, and uniforms proved vital for the Continental Army.
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- With the end of the wartime alliance between Britain and the Native Americans east of the Mississippi River, American settlers moved in great numbers into the rich farmlands of the Midwest.
- While land ownership was something most Europeans could only dream of, contemporary accounts show that the average American farmer owned his land, fed his family far more than European peasants, and could make provisions for land for his children.
- After the demise of the fur trade, they established trading posts throughout the west, continued trade with the Indians, and served as guides and hunters for the western migration of settlers to Utah, Oregon, and California.
- Major events in the western movement of the U.S. population were the Homestead Act, a law by which, for a nominal price, a settler was given title to 160 acres of land to farm; the opening of the Oregon Territory to settlement; and the Texas Revolution.
- American Progress is an allegorical representation of the modernization of the new west.
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- Supreme Court, one for each member of the court over the age of 70 years and 6 months.
- The goal was to change the political balance of the Court and ensure the Court's support for the New Deal legislation.
- While Burton Wheeler, a progressive Democrat from Montana, played the role of the public voice of the alliance that formed in opposition to the court-packing plan, conservative Democratic senators, Carter Glass, Harry Flood Byrd, and Josiah Bailey, were critical to collecting enough opposing votes in Congress.
- The Manifesto called for reduced governments spending, balanced budget, and lowering taxes.
- Over 100,000 copies were distributed and the document marked a turning point in terms of congressional support for the New Deal legislation.
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- An alliance of labor and humanitarian groups induced some legislatures to grant aid to mothers with dependent children.
- The Supreme Court ruled in favor of regulated work hours for women in "Muller v.
- Finally, some minimum wage provisions were introduced (for men and women).
- The progressives were avid modernizers.
- Progressives across the country influenced municipal governments of large urban cities, to build numerous parks where it was believed that leisure time for children and families could be spent in a healthy, wholesome environment, thereby fostering good morals and citizenship.
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- Although the majority of them supported Hoover in 1928, four years later Polish Americans joined other urban working class Americans of European origin and voted for Roosevelt.
- Progressive intellectuals: At the end of the 19th century, progressivism was associated mostly with the Republican Party.
- Progressive intellectuals and urban reformers endorsed the idea that the government not only could but also should be responsible for the social reforms that would improve the well-being of Americans, particularly the rapidly growing ranks of white urban workers, and regulate big businesses.
- However, Democrat Thomas Woodrow Wilson continued the progressive stand.
- His alliance with white Southerners and lack of support for anti-lynching legislation and civil rights alienated African Americans.