Examples of Jeffersonian Republicans in the following topics:
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- Virginia congressman John Randolph of Roanoke was the leader of the "Old Republican" faction of Democratic-Republicans that insisted on a strict adherence to the Constitution and opposed any innovations.
- The term was first used in 1804, referring to moderates in Pennsylvania and especially a faction of the Democratic-Republican party calling itself "The Society of Constitutional Republicans."
- Between 1801 and 1806, rival factions of Jeffersonian Republicans in Philadelphia engaged in intense public debate and vigorous political competition that pitted radical democrats against moderates, who defended the traditional rights of the propertied classes.
- The radicals, led by William Duane, publisher of the Jeffersonian publication the Aurora, pushed for legislative reforms that would increase popular representation and the power of the poor and laboring classes.
- In New York state, the term "quid" was applied to the Democratic-Republican faction that remained loyal to Governor Morgan Lewis after he was repudiated by the Republican majority led by DeWitt Clinton.
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- The Republican Party was formed out of a loose coalition of Northern
ex-Whigs who resented Southern political power.
- 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.
- However,
it is important to note that mainstream Republicans were not inherently
antislavery or abolitionist.
- Explain why the Republican Party emerged after the collapse of the Whig Party
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- Jackson's policies followed the era of Jeffersonian democracy, which had dominated the previous political era.
- The Democratic-Republican Party of the Jeffersonians had become factionalized in the 1820s.
- It can be contrasted with the characteristics of Jeffersonian democracy.
- While Jeffersonians favored educated men (though they opposed inherited elites), the Jacksonians gave little weight to education.
- The Whigs were the inheritors of Jeffersonian Democracy, in terms of promoting schools and colleges.
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- In contrast to the Jeffersonian political era that preceded it, Jacksonian democracy promoted the strength of the executive branch of government at the expense of Congress while also seeking to broaden the public's participation in government.
- Unlike Jeffersonians, their emphasis on education was minimal and they demanded elected (not appointed) judges, rewriting many state constitutions to reflect these new values.
- The Democratic-Republican Party of the Jeffersonians became factionalized in the 1820s.
- The Whigs became the inheritors of Jeffersonian Democracy in terms of promoting schools and colleges.
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- The Jeffersonians believed in democracy and equality of political opportunity, especially for the yeoman farmer and the plain folk.
- The Jeffersonians believed in democracy and equality of political opportunity (for white male citizens), with a priority for the yeoman farmer and the plain folk.
- The Jeffersonian conception of the yeoman farmer as the model republican citizen developed under a rising fear that the aggressive Federalist promotion of industry and commerce would lead to the growth of a class of wage laborers dependent on others for income and sustenance (the antithesis of the independent, republican citizen).
- By contrast, yeoman agriculture, as depicted by the Democratic-Republicans, was a system of farming in which an independent (white male) farmer owned his own land and the fruits of his labor (and therefore, could impartially participate in the political process).
- Despite the Jeffersonian ideal of a limited central government (which would not be empowered to negotiate such an expansive land deal) and Jefferson's own commitment to policies for federal debt reduction (the United States paid France fifteen million dollars for the territory), the Louisiana Purchase symbolized the success of Jeffersonian Democracy in several ways.
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- Although Jeffersonians extolled the virtues of the independent yeoman, they also were strongly in favor of slavery.
- Unlike the majority of the northeastern Federalists, many Democratic-Republicans holding federal office during President Jefferson's era were plantation slaveowners.
- In the minds of Jeffersonians, yeomen only could be white (and male).
- In the minds of the Democratic-Republicans, this paradoxical cycle of master-slave relations was in no way antithetical to republican principles and individual freedom.
- Jeffersonians resisted antislavery and abolition vigorously, pointing to the violence of the revolution in Haiti as justification for keeping Africans enslaved in the United States.
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- The Republican Party, usually called the Democratic-Republican Party, was an American political party founded about 1791 by Thomas Jefferson and James Madison.
- In 1801, the Democrat-Republicans came to power with Jefferson's election to president.
- Despite the fact that Britain was America's leading trading partner, Republicans feared that trade alliances with Britain would undermine the American republican project.
- The Jeffersonians mounted a public campaign against the ratification of the Jay Treaty, and encouraged public outcry against John Jay and the Federalists.
- 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.
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- The era saw a brief lull in the bitter partisan disputes that had plagued the Democratic-Republican and Federalist parties.
- The Democratic-Republican Party was nominally dominant but was also largely inactive at the national level and in most states.
- Old Republican critics of the new nationalism, among them John Randolph of Roanoke, Virginia, had warned that the abandonment of the Jeffersonian scheme of Southern preeminence would provoke a sectional conflict between the North and the South that would threaten the Union.
- Old Republicans feared such an outcome was inevitable if universal adherence to the precepts of Jeffersonianism was absent.
- With the decline in political consensus, Jeffersonian principles were indeed revived on the basis of Southern exceptionalism, and the interlude of the "Era of Good Feelings" came to an end.
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- 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.
- This legislation, Jeffersonian democrats argued, proved that Federalists were intent on establishing a tyrannical, aristocratic government and would silence the opposition through political persecution.
- They were signed into law by President John Adams and were intended as a direct political attack on the Democrat-Republicans.
- The Federalist-dominated Congress believed that Democrat-Republicans, fueled by the French and French-sympathizing immigrants, posed a subversive threat to the United States.
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- Westward expansion was motivated by the Jeffersonian ideal of the yeoman farmer and enabled by technological improvements.
- Although Federalists opposed the expansion, Jeffersonians hailed the opportunity to create millions of new farms to expand the domain of farm-owning yeomen.
- They envisioned an ideal republican society, based on agricultural commerce, governed lightly and promoting self-reliance and virtue.