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Lockner, Allyn O. "Steps to Local Government Reform: A Guide to Tailoring Local Government Reforms to Fit Regional Governance Communities in Democracies". Bloomington, IN: iUniverse, Inc., 2013. (ISBN 978-1-4620-1818-5) Anzia, Sarah. 2021. "Party and Ideology in American Local Government: An Appraisal." Annual Review of Political Science.
Washington, D.C. local elections, such as Mayor and Councilmen, restored after a 100-year gap in Georgetown, and a 190-year gap in the wider city, ending Congress's policy of local election disfranchisement started in 1801 in this former portion of Maryland—see: D.C. Home rule. 1974. A challenge to felony disenfranchisement, Richardson v.
A local government was set up encompassing parts of the territories of Kansas, Nebraska, New Mexico, Utah, and Washington, with the name of Jefferson Territory. [aj] While never recognized by the federal government, it generally held control over the area until Colorado Territory was established, which adopted most of its laws. [229] Unofficial ...
The Nineteenth Amendment was ratified in 1920, guaranteeing women's suffrage in the United States. The federal government created its first drug policy with the Harrison Narcotics Tax Act of 1914. The National Park Service was established under the Department of the Interior in 1916.
The Urbanization of America (1970) pp 128–50; Covers 1820-1960; Teaford, Jon C. Cities of the Heartland: The Rise and Fall of the Industrial Midwest (1993) Teaford, Jon C. The Metropolitan Revolution: The Rise of Post-Urban America (2006) Teaford, Jon C. The Unheralded Triumph: City Government in America, 1870-1900 (1984) Wade, Richard C.
A British newspaper cartoon reacts to the repeal of the Stamp Act in 1765.. Taxes were low at the local, colonial, and imperial levels throughout the colonial era. [1] The issue that led to the Revolution was whether parliament had the right to impose taxes on the Americans when they were not represented in parliament.
A massive flood in Dayton in 1913 killed 400 people and caused $100 million in property damage. Patterson took charge of the relief work and demonstrated in person the sort of business leaders he proposed. Dayton adopted his policies; by 1920, 177 American cities had followed suit and adopted city manager governments. [107] [108]
The railroad system was virtually complete; the need was for much better roads. The traditional method of placing the burden for maintaining roads on local landowners was increasingly inadequate. New York State took the lead in 1898, and by 1916 the old system had been discarded everywhere. Demands grew for local and state government to take ...