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The answer is The Catholic Church was increasingly seen as a corrupt institution with too much power.
This is strictly my opinion but I believe it was a failure. It's original goal was the revitalize the American economy and pull us out of the Great Depression and get American's working again. In this it succeeded to an extent lowering the unemployment rate significantly however it still did not completely work since 15% of the United State's population was still jobless and in poverty. It won't be until WWII and the building of the arms industry as well as army that we will pull ourselves from the Great Depression.
Non-violent civil disobedience
The long march was a tactic of retreat into the mountains so that they could survive because they were facing elimination.
