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The American Political Nation, 1838–1893. (1991). Silver, Adam. "Elites and masses: the prevalence of economics and culture in nineteenth-century American party platforms." American Nineteenth Century History 20.1 (2019): 41-64. online; Steel, John, and Marcel Broersma, eds. Redefining Journalism in the Era of the Mass Press, 1880-1920 ...
19th century reform movements are political movements such as abolitionism or temperance which played a significant role in the political life of the nineteenth century.The movements found organizational form in the United States in organizations such as the American Anti-Slavery Society.
The People's Party, also known as the Populist Party or simply the Populists, was a left-wing agrarian populist political party in the United States in the late 19th century. [ 15 ] [ 16 ] The Populist Party emerged in the early 1890s as an important force in the Southern and Western United States, but fell apart after it nominated Democrat ...
Dyer Lum was a 19th-century American individualist anarchist labor activist and poet. [46] A leading anarcho-syndicalist and a prominent left-wing intellectual of the 1880s, [47] he is remembered as the lover and mentor of early anarcha-feminist Voltairine de Cleyre. [48]
Political divisions inside the United States often seemed minor or trivial to Europeans, where the divide between the Left and the Right led to violent political polarization, starting with the French Revolution. [2] No American party has advocated European ideals of conservatism such as a monarchy, an established church, or a hereditary ...
Radicalism" or "radical liberalism" was a political ideology in the 19th century United States aimed at increasing political and economic equality. The ideology was rooted in a belief in the power of the ordinary man, political equality, and the need to protect civil liberties.
Freedmen voting in New Orleans, 1867. Reconstruction lasted from Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation of January 1, 1863 to the Compromise of 1877. [1] [2]The major issues faced by President Abraham Lincoln were the status of the ex-slaves (called "Freedmen"), the loyalty and civil rights of ex-rebels, the status of the 11 ex-Confederate states, the powers of the federal government needed to ...
Other groups seeking spiritual awakening also gained popularity in the mid-19th century. Philosopher Ralph Waldo Emerson began the American transcendentalist movement in New England, to promote self-reliance and better understanding of the universe through contemplation of the over-soul. Transcendentalism was essentially an American offshoot of ...