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172 matches to Regulator Movement
Regulator Movement. 1764-71. American colonists in NC vs tax, corruption.
Thalidomide. 1958-62. German/British sedative with disastrous effects on embryo development. Led to drug regulatory agencies worldwide.
Action Française. 1898-1945. French right wing political movement and newspaper.
Anglo-Catholicism. High Church movement in Church of England. Stresses link with Roman Catholic church. Oxford Movement.
Anti-Corn Law League. 1839-46. Cobden and Bright’s pacifist movement for Free Trade, public education, against social reform and Chartists. Corn Laws.
Anti-Saloon League. 1893 US Temperance organization. Prohibition.
Aragon, Louis. 1897-1982. French Romantic poet + Communist.
Arminianism. 17C-. Christian movement. Free-will is compatible with God’s sovereignty.
Bakunin, Mikhail. 1814-76. Russian anarchist revolutionary. International movement. Advocated assassination. Dieu et l’état 1871.
Black Hundreds. 1905-9. Russian movement. Opposed revolution. Persecuted Jews-50,000 dead.
Black Muslims. 20C US movement to apply Islam to Black life. Malcolm X.
Black Nationalism. 1960-73. US political movement for economic power.
Bright, John. 1811-89. English Quaker MP: Free Trade Movement. Cobden. Anti-Corn Law.
Brown, Robert. 1773-1858. Scottish botanist: Brownian movement. Plant cell nucleus.
Buchmanism. 1922-65. Christian revivalist movement stressing honesty, purity, love, unselfishness. =Moral Rearmament 1938. Oxford Group.
Cage, John. 1912-92. Father of US avant-garde musical movement. Experiments with randomness and new sounds.
Carbonari. 1806-31. Naples. Secret revolutionary society. Young Italy Movement.
Carson, Edward. 1854-1935. Irish. Formed Ulster Volunteers to resist Home Rule.
Cassini, Giovanni. 1625-1712. Italian astronomer. Movement of moon.
Cavaliere, Emilio del. c1550-1602. Added arias and choral movements to cantatas. Early dramatic music.
Chartists. 1836-58. British workers’ reform movement. Petitions 1838,40,48 for universal male suffrage, ballot vote led to riots 1839. Lovett.
Civil Rights Movement. 1950-91. US movement to obtain rights for blacks. 1955 Parks. 1963 March on Washington. King speech. 1991 Civil Rights Act.
Clear Grits Movement. 1848-51. Canadian political movement for representation by population.
Dario, Ruben. 1867-1916. Published Azul 1888, starting Modernismo movement.
Deakin, Alfred. 1856-1919. Australian Prime Minister 1903~10. First Attorney General 1901. Led federation movement.