nationalism

(noun)

The idea of supporting one's country and culture.

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Examples of nationalism in the following topics:

  • Legislative Leadership

    • Roosevelt was deeply committed to conserving natural resources, and historians largely consider him as the nation's first conservation president.
    • He worked with all the major figures of the movement, especially his chief adviser on the matter, Gifford Pinchot,putting the issue at the forefront of the national agenda.
    • By the time he left office in 1908, Roosevelt set aside more federal land, national parks, and nature preserves than all of his predecessors combined.
    • Forest Service, oversaw the creation of five National Parks, and signed the 1906 Antiquities Act, which established 18 new U.S. national monuments.
    • He also established the first National Bird Reserves, four Game Preserves, and over 100 National Forests, including Shoshone National Forest.

  • The Immigration Act of 1965

    • The Immigration and Nationality Act of 1965 changed national immigration regulations to a model based on skills and family relationships.
    • The Immigration and Nationality Act of 1965 (also known as the Hart-Celler Act) changed the nation's laws regulating immigration.
    • This national origins quota system was viewed as an embarrassment by, among others, President John F.
    • The act would profoundly alter the nation's demographics.
    • Explain the passage and consequences of the Immigration and Nationality Act of 1965

  • Roosevelt and Conservation

    • Roosevelt was a prominent conservationist, putting the issue at the forefront of the national agenda.
    • National Monuments.
    • He also established the first 51 Bird Reserves, four Game Preserves, and 150 National Forests, including Shoshone National Forest, the nation's first.
    • In 1905, his department gained control of the national forest reserves.
    • Roosevelt delivered the opening address: "Conservation as a National Duty."

  • Expanding Federal Power

    • A major part of Roosevelt's legacy is his conception of the executive branch as a source of regulatory powers for the "good" of the nation.
    • Perhaps one of the most remarkable characteristics of Roosevelt's presidency was his conviction that the president, by virtue of his election by the nation, was the representative figure of the American people, as opposed to Congress.
    • Accordingly, Roosevelt believed that he could act in any manner that benefitted the needs of the nation, unless specifically and explicitly prohibited by the Constitution.
    • Some of Roosevelt's most noteworthy legislative achievements, such as the Pure Food and Drug Act, the Hepburn Act, the Elkins Act, and his conservation laws embody this concept of the executive branch as an expansive source of regulatory powers for the "good" of the nation.
    • As some scholars have considered, Roosevelt's domestic policies, taken together, paved the way for the 1930s New Deal legislation as well as the modern regulatory state and centralized national authority with expansive political power.

  • The United Nations

    • Upon the ratification of the Charter of the United Nations in October 1945, the United Nations was officially established.
    • The League of Nations failed to prevent World War II (1939–1945).
    • Because of the widespread recognition that humankind could not afford a third world war, the United Nations was established to replace the flawed League of Nations in 1945.
    • The United Nations Peacekeeping began in 1948.
    • A map of the world showing when countries joined the United Nations.

  • The First National Bank

    • Against opposition, the First National Bank was established to improve the nation's credit under the newly enacted Constitution.
    • The debate over the National Bank also raised early questions of constitutionality in the new government.
    • After reading Hamilton's defense of the National Bank Act, Washington signed the bill into law.
    • The First Bank building is now a National Historic Landmark located in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania within Independence National Historical Park.
    • Analyze the debate surrounding the charter of the First National Bank

  • The Women's Rights Movement

    • The National Woman's Party authored more than 600 pieces of legislation for women's equality, more than 300 of which were passed.
    • Alice Paul and Lucy Burns founded the organization originally under the name the Congressional Union for Woman Suffrage in 1913; by 1917, the name had been changed to the National Women's Party.
    • The National Woman's Party also opposed World War I.
    • After 1920, the National Woman's Party authored more than 600 pieces of legislation fighting for women's equality; more than 300 of these were passed.
    • Evaluate how the actions of the National Women's Party pressured Wilson to support the Suffrage Amendment

  • The League of Nations

    • At its largest, from September 1934 to February 1935, the league counted 58 nations as members.
    • Harding, continued American opposition to the League of Nations.
    • The league cannot be labeled a failure, however, as it laid the groundwork for the United Nations, which replaced the League of Nations after World War II and inherited a number of agencies and organizations founded by the league.
    • Members of the Commission of the League of Nations in Paris, France, 1919.
    • Identify the creation, goals, and limitations of the League of Nations.

  • Industrial Recovery

    • The National Recovery Administration (NRA), which was one of the outcomes of the National Industrial Recovery Act (NIRA), was the main New Deal agency focused on industrial recovery.
    • Franklin Delano Roosevelt signed the National Industrial Recovery Act (NIRA) only three months after he took over the office (June 1933).
    • At the center of NIRA was the National Recovery Administration (NRA), headed by Hugh S.
    • Many of NIRA labor provisions reappeared in the National Labor Relations Act (Wagner Act), passed later the same year.
    • Francis Perkins looks on as Franklin Roosevelt signs the National Labor Relations Act.

  • National Security

    • As a measure to ensure national security in the midst of the Cold War, President Truman signed the National Security Act of 1947 on July 26, 1947 .
    • Aside from the military reorganization, the act established the National Security Council, a central place of coordination for national security policy in the executive branch, and the Central Intelligence Agency, the U.S.' s first peacetime intelligence agency.
    • Similarly, the Joint Chiefs of Staff was officially established under the original National Security Act of 1947.
    • Truman signed the National Security Act in 1947, which realigned and reorganized the U.S.
    • Outline the ways in which the Cold War shaped U.S. national security policy