Examples of New Nationalism in the following topics:
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- Roosevelt established the United States Forest Service, signed into law the creation of five National Parks, and signed the 1906 Antiquities Act, under which he proclaimed 18 new U.S.
- 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.
- In 1907, Roosevelt designated 16 million acres of new national forests just minutes before a deadline.
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- The era saw a national trend that envisioned a permanent role for the federal government in developing the nation's prosperity.
- The emergence of new Republicans, undismayed by mild nationalist policies, anticipated Monroe's "Era of Good Feelings," and a general mood of optimism emerged with hopes for political reconciliation.
- His purpose was simply to remove the Federalists from positions of political power, both at the federal and state levels, especially in Federalism's New England strongholds.
- His visits to New England and the Federalist stronghold of Boston, Massachusetts, were the most significant of the tour.
- Old Republican critics of the new nationalism, among them John Randolph of Roanoke, Virginia, had warned that the abandonment of the Jeffersonian scheme of Southern preeminence would provoke a sectional conflict between the North and the South that would threaten the Union.
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- 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.
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- National Recovery Administration
(1933) allowed industries to create codes that would regulate and curb unfair
competition.
- The Civilian Conservation Corps
(1933) put large numbers of men at work in natural resources projects (e.g., in
national forests).
- While the Second New Deal
was a continuation of the First New Deal, reforms and programs
labeled as the Second New Deal were less a result of the earlier sense of
emergency and more a reflection of bolder attitudes.
- The National Labor Relations Act
(1933; known also as the Wagner Act), which established the National Labor
Relations Board (1935).
- The Fair Labor Standards Act (1938)
was the first federal law that included a national minimum wage and the
forty-hour week as the standard work week.
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- During his eight years in office the national debt more than doubled, from $907 billion in 1980 to $2.6 trillion in 1988, and consumer prices rose by more than 50%.
- Buckley's National Review.
- The second New Right tended to focus on social issues and national sovereignty and was often linked with the religious right.
- President Reagan addresses Congress and the Nation on the Program for Economic Recovery from the U.S.
- Differentiate between the First New Right and the Second New Right
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- 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.
- It
was one of the most prominent and controversial New Deal laws focused on boosting the industry.
- At the center of NIRA was the National Recovery Administration (NRA), headed by Hugh S.
- In the long-term, the Act allowed a surge in the growth and power of unions, which became a core part of the New Deal Coalition.
- Francis Perkins looks on as Franklin Roosevelt signs the National Labor Relations Act.
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- 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.
- With his "big stick diplomacy" efforts in Latin America, as well as his efforts to expanding the regulatory power of the federal government in domestic matters, Roosevelt set a new precedent for his 20th century political successors.
- 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.
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- The first intercollegiate football game between teams from Rutgers College (now Rutgers University) and the College of New Jersey (now Princeton University) took place on November 6, 1869, at College Field, in New Brunswick, New Jersey, on what is now the site of Rutgers' College Avenue Gymnasium.
- In the mid-1850s, a baseball craze hit the New York metropolitan area.
- By 1856, local journals were referring to baseball as the "national pastime" or "national game. " A year later, sixteen area clubs formed the sport's first governing body, the National Association of Base Ball Players.
- The more formally structured National League was founded in 1876.
- The next year, the series was not held, as the National League champion New York Giants, under manager John McGraw, refused to recognize the major league status of the American League and its champion.
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- Upon the ratification of the Charter of the United Nations in October 1945, the United Nations was officially established.
- The UN accepted this suggestion and, after considering different sites, constructed the United Nations headquarters building in New York City in 1949-1950 .
- The earliest concrete plan for a new world organization was begun under the aegis of the U.S.
- In a new spirit of cooperation, the Security Council established larger and more complex UN peacekeeping missions.
- The UN world headquarters are located in New York City.
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- 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.
- The act was co-sponsered by Representative Emanuel Celler of New York and Senator Philip Hart of Michigan, and it was strongly supported by United States Senator Ted Kennedy of Massachusetts.
- The new waves of immigration enabled by the Immigration and Nationality Act of 1965 heightened this controversy among the American public.
- The act would profoundly alter the nation's demographics.