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Jacksonian Nationalist: Joel R. Poinsett's Role in the Nullification Crisis
The object of this thesis is to examine the role of Joel R. Poinsetts role in the Nullification Crisis of 1832-1833 in South Carolina within the context of his previous experiences abroad. The work will analyze Poinsetts occupations before his role as leader of the Unionists in South Carolina to …
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Democracy in Print: The Literature of Persuasion in Jacksonian America, 1815--1840
"My analysis is organized chronologically, treating the literature of a series of events, each of which had an impact on the others to follow. After a general discussion of political culture in the early 19th century, I begin with an analysis of the literature emanating from the War of 1812, the …
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"""to Grind the Faces of the Poor"": Journeymen for Jesus in Jacksonian Baltimore"
Embargo set by: Seth Robbins for item 72496 Lift date: Forever Reason: Restricted to the U of I community idenfinitely during batch ingest of legacy ETDs
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Charles Mason and the Civil War : the Story of a Jacksonian in the Mid-Nineteenth Century
… allegiances were severed or strengthened. Since Jacksonian Democrats had dominated the political stage in America for many of the years preceding the war, their reactions to the growing tensions and war itself become of interest in exploring the development of American political thought. This …
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Jacksonian Democracy and the Electoral College: Politics and Reform in the Method of Selecting Presidential Electors, 1824-1833
The Electoral College and Jacksonian Democracy are two subjects that have been studied extensively. Taken together, however, little has been written on how the method of choosing presidential electors during the Age of Jackson changed. Although many historians have written on the development of …
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AMOS KENDALL: A POLITICAL BIOGRAPHY (JACKSON; KENTUCKY; BANKING)
… well as the standard secondary literature on the Jacksonian period of American history.</p><p>Kendall's career in politics is examined in its entirety, including his activities in Kentucky, his tenure as Postmaster General, and his contributions to the development of the Democratic Party. Emphasis …
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"A kind providence" and "The right to self preservation": how Andrew Jackson, Emersonian whiggery, and frontier Calvinism shaped the course of American political culture
… an experience common to many other people of the Jacksonian period. Ralph Waldo Emerson’s views on Providence serve as a foil to more greatly reveal the subtle difference between the Jacksonian Providential optimism rooted in uncertainty and the emerging, Whiggish world view that would eventually …
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The Transformation of Ritual Performance Traditions in Early American Political Culture
… popular mass campaigning in the middle of the Jacksonian era. Chapters One and Two outline the study and the theoretical framework used, and provide historical background for the American political culture. Chapter Three introduces Turner's ""social drama"" as a way of connecting four points of …
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The ten years after the Civil War: life and politics in the Continental Divide counties of southwest Virginia
… associations. Reluctantly turning from their Jacksonian principles, the Ninth District embraced organized political conservatism through convention politics, in a statewide conservative effort to destroy Radical Republicanism.
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Ostracodes of the Piney Point formation (middle eocene) of Virginia
… Point Formation is middle Claibornian to middle Jacksonian, or middle middle Eocene to middle late Eocene. This shows that the Piney Point Formation is time-transgressive, because the ostracodes from the type locality are strictly middle Claibornian (Brown et al., 1972). The ostracode assemblage …
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Mountain Man : Fact and Fiction
… between William Goetzmann ("The Mountain Man as Jacksonian Man") and Harvey Lewis Carter and Marcia Carpenter Spencer ("Stereotypes of the Mountain Man") -is explored, and each image illustrated by examples from both history and fiction. Finally, through analysis of journals, accounts of …
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Freemasons in government in the United States, 1776-1840.
… of Europe. By the close of the "Period of Jacksonian Democracy" both Mason and non-Mason had built a government sound enough so that the new nation was destined to become a power second to none in the world.
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"'Under the banner of the democratic principle': John Louis O'Sullivan, the democracy and the ""Democratic Review"""
… eloquent expression to the tenets of the radical Jacksonian Democracy--hostility to legislatively-chartered, exclusive banking corporations, advocacy of free trade and the certainty that if left free of government interference American society would evolve into one based on equality of opportunity …
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Opportunities of Empire: Three Barbary captives and American nation-building, 1770-1840
… in the early republic and throughout the Jacksonian era. To date, no study has taken a biographical approach to any of the hundreds of American sailors who were held as “white slaves” in the North African “Barbary States.” Biographies of American sailors are typically of distinguished and …
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Opportunities of Empire: Three Barbary captives and American nation-building, 1770-1840
… in the early republic and throughout the Jacksonian era. To date, no study has taken a biographical approach to any of the hundreds of American sailors who were held as “white slaves” in the North African “Barbary States.” Biographies of American sailors are typically of distinguished and …
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"The Best Soil of Their Hearts": Protestant Explorations of Catholic Spirituality in Cooper, Longfellow, and Hawthorne
… Catholicism could be part of the identity that Jacksonian-era Americans were trying to create.</p>
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This Inglorious War: The Second Seminole War, the Ad Hoc Origins of American Imperialism, and the Silence of Slavery
… stunted the breadth of what is commonly called Jacksonian democracy. As Democrats increasingly articulated ambitions over the rest of the continent - John Quincy Adams disgustedly condemned their agenda as promulgating a "culture of conquest" - mainstream Whigs remained largely silent over this …
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An Analysis of President Trump's Afghanistan Foreign Policy: Through the Theoretical Framework of Walter Russell Mead's Four Paradigms
… over other foreign policy endeavors. Lastly, the Jacksonians, who prioritize the physical and economic security of American citizens above all else. The primary research question in this thesis states, which of the four traditions of U.S. foreign policy identified by Walter Russell Mead helps …
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Suffrage for White Men Only: The Disfranchisement of Free Men of Color in Antebellum North Carolina
… of citizenship in the early republic and Jacksonian periods. But on the other hand, some North Carolina white slaveholders saw free people of color as instigators of slave uprisings and a threat to their social order and economic system. As convention delegates debated disfranchisement, …
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Ideological Differences Between Whigs, Republicans and Democrats in Iowa, 1838-1860: Real or Illusory?
… controversy surrounding political parties of the Jacksonian period. This thesis focuses on Iowa's political parties in the legislative process to determine whether there is ideological concensus or conflict on selected issues in the period from 1838 to 1860. Procedure. Issues of political interest …
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