American republicanism

Examples of American republicanism in the following topics:

• American Republicanism

  • American republicanism is a political ideology that sees government as the pursuit of common good by a virtuous, participating citizenry.
  • Drawing from colonial experience, British political liberties, classical Roman and Greek culture, and various notions of civic virtue, intellectuals and leaders devised a political theory known as "American republicanism".
  • American republicanism is a multifaceted ideological conception that provoked stark disagreement among those who enshrined it as the foundation of the United States political system.
  • The "Founding Fathers" were strong advocates of republican values who were involved in the shaping of the American political system.
  • For example, during Washington's two terms as president, Federalists and the Democratic-Republicans clashed over numerous domestic matters and, in this conflict, drew on conflicting visions of classical republicanism to advocate for two distinct socio-economic visions of American society.

• The Rise of the Republican Party

  • Following the collapse of the Whigs during the election of 1852, a major realignment of the American political party system occurred with former Whigs splintering into various political factions.
  • Anti-immigration and temperance movements formed the platform of the emerging American ("Know-Nothing") Party, while those interested in the economic development of the West and Northern finance and business were attracted to the Republican Party.
  • Republicans were opposed to the perceived "anti-modernity" of the Southern slave culture and rallied behind the slogan of “Free Soil, Free Labor, Free Men”, which they argued was representative of classical American republicanism.
  • This ideology cast the Republicans as the true heirs of the Jeffersonians.
  • Opponents of the expansion of slavery encompassed a variety of viewpoints, including those who resented Southern political power, were committed to free labor as the future of American industry, or were morally opposed to slavery itself (for example, abolitionists from the more radical wings of the Republican Party).

• Democracy v. Republicanism

  • Republicanism is the political values system that has been a major part of American civic thought since the American Revolution.
  • American republicanism, founded and first practiced by the Founding Fathers in the 18th century, was based on early Roman, Renaissance and English models and ideas.
  • Revolutionary Republicanism was centered on limiting corruption and greed.
  • The commitment of most Americans to republican values and to their property rights helped bring about the American Revolution.
  • The "Founding Fathers" were strong advocates of republican values.

• The Republican Alternative

  • The Democratic-Republican Party, was an American political party founded around 1791 by Thomas Jefferson and James Madison.
  • The Republican Party, usually called the Democratic-Republican Party, was an American political party founded about 1791 by Thomas Jefferson and James Madison.
  • Instead, this group of republicans expressed admiration of the French Revolution, defended states' rights ideologies as articulated by the Anti-Federalists, and extolled yeoman farmer agriculture as the backbone of the American economy rather than commerce or manufacturing.
  • Despite the fact that Britain was America's leading trading partner, Republicans feared that trade alliances with Britain would undermine the American republican project.
  • Federalists spread rumors that the Republicans were radicals who would ruin the country, while the Republicans accused Federalists of destroying republican values by favoring aristocratic, anti-republican principles.

• The "Reign of Witches"

  • The "Reign of Witches" was a descriptive catchphrase used by Democratic-Republicans to criticize the Federalist Alien and Sedition Acts.
  • "The Reign of Witches" is a termed used by Democrat-Republicans to describe the Federalist party and John Adams after the passage of the Alien and Sedition Acts.
  • They were signed into law by President John Adams and were intended as a direct political attack on the Democrat-Republicans.
  • Despite the XYZ Affair and the Quasi War, which had incited francophobic sentiment in the majority of the American public, Democrat-Republicans remained pro-French and outspoken critics of the Federalist administration.
  • The Federalists, on the other hand, were suspicious of the Democrat-Republican party's affinity for France, especially since in the released dispatches of the XYZ affair, agent "Y" had boasted of the existence of a "French" party in American politics.

• The Radical Record

  • The Radical Republicans were a faction of American politicians within the Republican Party of the United States from about 1854 until the end of Reconstruction in 1877.
  • As the chief Radical leader in the Senate during Reconstruction, Sumner fought hard to provide equal civil and voting rights for the freedmen on the grounds that "consent of the governed" was a basic principle of American republicanism, and to block ex-Confederates from power so they would not reverse the gains made from the Union's victory in the Civil War.
  • Radical Republicans in Congress disagreed.
  • The law stated that African-Americans were to be granted equal rights as citizens.
  • Charles Sumner (January 6, 1811 – March 11, 1874) was an American politician and senator from Massachusetts.

• The Soul of a Republic

  • This approach produced the American political ideology of republicanism, which by 1775 had become widespread in the United States.
  • Republicanism, based on both ancient Greek and Renaissance European thought, has been a central part of American political culture and it strongly influenced the Founding Fathers.
  • American historian Gordon S.
  • The open question of the conflict between personal economic interest (grounded in John Locke's philosophy of liberalism) and classical republicanism troubled Americans.
  • Widely held republican ideals led American revolutionaries to found institutions such as the Society of the Cincinnati, which was founded to preserve the ideals and camaraderie of officers who served in the American Revolution.

• African Americans in Southern Politics

  • After the Civil War, many African Americans and former slaves became Republicans and officeholders.
  • After the Civil War, Republicans took control of all Southern state governorships and state legislatures except Virginia.
  • The Republican coalition elected numerous African Americans to local, state, and national offices.
  • As a result, states with majority African-American population often elected only one or two African-American representatives in Congress.
  • Because he preceded any African American in the House, he was the first African American in the U.S.

• Republican Motherhood

  • "Republican Motherhood" is a twentieth-century term describing an attitude toward the role of women in the emerging United States before, during, and after the American Revolution.
  • It centered on the belief that the patriots' daughters should be raised to uphold the ideals of republicanism in order to pass on republican values to the next generation.
  • "Republican Motherhood" describes a kind of civic duty.
  • Although the notion of Republican Motherhood initially encouraged women in their private roles, it eventually resulted in increased educational opportunities for American women, as typified by Mary Lyon and the founding in 1837 of Mount Holyoke Female Seminary (later renamed "Mount Holyoke College").
  • Explain the concept of "Republican Motherhood" and how it shaped the role of women in American society

• Reform and Scandal: The Campaign of 1884

  • The so-called Mugwumps, reformist Republicans, left the Republican party in anger at Blaine's nomination in the 1884 presidential election.
  • The Republican Party nominated James G.
  • Many influential Republicans were outraged.
  • These Republicans, called mugwumps, withdrew from the convention and declared that they would vote for the Democratic candidate if he were an honest man.
  • After the election, mugwump survived for more than a decade as an epithet for a party bolter in American politics.