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…Progressivism was a period of American history in which reforming working conditions, improving the way of life, exposing corruption, and expanding democracy rose from the city slums to Washington D.C. The lower and middle classes joined to demanded…

…was defeated and lost half of its original territory: the states which are presently known as California, Arizona, New Mexico and Texas. In 1859 president Benito Juárez issued the Laws of Reform which established the separation of the Church and the State. In 1862…

…. From the point of view of the most famous jurists punishment can be justified only from three or four ends to meet which it is inflicted upon the wrongdoer. They are retributive, reformative and deterrent. The retributive theory is now being condemned by all…

…movement to reform the Catholic Church (with the famous ninety-five statements he nailed to the door of Wittenberg church), in general economic individualism and the force of nationalism were causing whole countries to reform. Standardisation was also a major…

…(soon after becoming a senator he had been appointed to the Labor and Public Welfare Committee), but in the end he was forced to accept the Landrum-Griffin bill, which incorporated some of his reforms but was less favorable to labor. By 1960, Kennedy…

…shown that daughters with mothers of higher education are less likely to make use of welfare benefits because they are less likely to have children as teenagers or out of wedlock. Another benefit is that those with higher education are less likely…

…. Jacksonian Democrats reformed only to show their tendencies towards traditional white supremacy. As a result of the holes Jacksonian Democrats left behind, a series of social reforms arose. Some reforms did succeed in making changes, but many split society apart…

…. Social reformers soon attempted to obtain legislative restrictions against the worst features of the child-labor system, but little was accomplished. Children were still permitted to labor in hazardous occupations such as mining. Popular agitation for reform…

…Surgeon, food reformer; born in Tyrone Township, Mich. (brother of Will K. Kellogg). Born into a Seventh Day Adventist family, he took a course in a "hygieotherapeutic" school. He rejected this approach and took regular medical training, finishing…

…Surgeon, food reformer; born in Tyrone Township, Mich. (brother of Will K. Kellogg). Born into a Seventh Day Adventist family, he took a course in a "hygieotherapeutic" school. He rejected this approach and took regular medical training, finishing…