Social Movements During The Nineteenth-Century

Throughout the documented history of America, people of different beliefs and ideologies have felt the need to stand against perceived injustices imposed upon them from powerful forces in authoritative roles. Social movements have defined the procedures determined to make a change in the methods of conduct in social circles. Going back into the early channels of American history, revolutionaries have existed since the beginning stages of democracy in American government since the eighteenth century. Tilly and Wood (2013) describe the controversies of John Wilkes who led one of the first types of social movement campaigns with an uprising in governmental defiance in early America against the political conflicts. His influence in using his power and money, catapulted future efforts of campaign reform in America creating social movements to justify changes in subordinate groups dominated by greater authority. “During the later eighteenth-century, people in Western Europe and North America began the fateful creation of a new political phenomenon. They began to create social movements” (Tilly & Wood, 2013, p. 3). …show more content…
Social movement organizations (SMO) provided the long-term networks that would outlast social movement campaign efforts (Tilly & Wood, 2013). The shift in social movements started America down a path originated in other countries of France, Belgium, and the United Kingdom. The efforts of these countries had campaigns that influenced America’s “popular participation in public politics” (Tilly & Wood, 2013, p. 51). Leaders in America started taking consideration in the social movement claims that initiated the changes in