Survey of American History Essay -- US History

Over the course of American history many ultra movements yield forever changed the historical landscape of the United States of America. Since the beginning of American history, radical movements have played an important role in bringing about change in U.S. society and the U.S. relationship with other countries. They have also experience major failures and defeats. Major concrete achievements and failures of radical movements have been present in changing the mainstream of the society since the end of WWI. Radical movements such as, labor/socialism, womens rights, well-bred rights and peace have played a significant role in the development of U.S. politics and society and forever changed the past, present and future of the United States of America. The motor/Socialism movement, supported mainly by the lower classes was a prominent radical idea that manifested itself into American society around the conclusion of WWI. The very position that the Soviet Union, the revolutionary s uccessor to Imperial Russia, was the first country to establish a Communist political and economic state was a major little terror to the United States (Brown 4). Influenced by the Bolshevik revolution in Russia, the Socialist movement gained momentum from oppressed workers and thus managed to successfully run hundreds of candidates around the nation for several(prenominal) decades. The Socialist Movement was painstakingly organized by scores of former Populists, militant miners and blacklisted railroad workers, who were assisted by a remarkable cadre of headmaster agitators and educators (Zinn 340). Socialism became extremely popular especially due to its endorsement by writers like Mark Twain, W.E.B. Dubois and Upton Sinclair as well its representation by Eugene Debs. With ... ... Great rules of order and Obamas health care reform came into existence. Without the socialism/labor movement the civil rights, womens rights and peace movements and their lasting impacts on society w ould never have happened.Works CitedBloom, Alexander, and Wini Breines. Takin it to the streets A Sixties Reader. 2nd ed. New York Oxford UP, 1995. Print.Brown, Archie. The Rise and Fall of Communism. New York Ecco, 2009. Print.Burkett, Elinor. Womens Movement. Britannica Online Encyclopedia. Encyclopdia Britannica. Web. 15 Dec. 2010. .Guttmann, Allen. Protest against the War in Vietnam. The ANNALS of the American academy of Political and Social Science 382.1 (1969) 56-63. Print.Zinn, Howard. A Peoples History of the United States 1492-present. New York HarperCollins, 1999. Print.