History qn about social movements?

Question

From 1877 to the 1980s social movements created a series of shifts in popular attitudes toward the role of government in American life. Looking at Reconstruction, Populism, Progressivism, The New Deal and the 1960s attempt to explain how we arrived in 2007 with our current political concerns about low taxation, moral issues such as abortion and gay marriage, and fears of world terrorism. In your opinion has the period since 1877 been a period of positive growth for the United States? A period of decline? A period in which very little has actually changed despite many big ideas and events? Use reference points from the past to explain your beliefs.

Answer 1

The US itself has declined in some ways while growing in others.

Morally, and culturally, we have declined in many ways.
Meanwhile, our nation has grown in size and in power, though it is slipping backward in that now.

Answer 2

you do not say what usa ? If the united states of a, it may conceal the Civil Rights circulation that grew out of the U. S. Civil war and an end of slavery a century in the previous yet did not get rid of racism.