John Randolph

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• John Randolph and the Old Republicans

  • When Virginia congressman John Randolph broke with Jefferson in 1806, his political faction became known as the "Old Republicans," or "quids."
  • 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.
  • John Randolph was a planter and a congressman from Virginia, serving in the House of Representatives and the Senate, and also as minister to Russia throughout his career.
  • Randolph made no effort to build a third party at the federal level.
  • Photograph at the National Portrait Gallery in Washington of John Randolph of Roanoke, VA.

• Madison and the Pressure for War

  • The term "hawk" was coined by the prominent Virginia congressman and Old Republican, John Randolph (of Roanoke), a staunch opponent to the entry into war.
  • The primary leaders of the group were Speaker of the House Henry Clay of Kentucky and John C.

• Legal Changes to Slavery: 1777-1804

  • With the anti-slavery movement gaining momentum, defenders of slavery such as John Randolph and John C.
  • During the debate over the Kansas-Nebraska Act in 1853, for example, Senator John Pettit of Indiana argued that the assertion that "all men are created equal" was not a "self-evident truth", but instead a "self-evident lie".

• The "Era of Good Feelings"

  • His cabinet comprised three of the political rivals who would vie for the presidency in 1824: John Quincy Adams, John C.
  • 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.

• The Second Continental Congress

  • The delegates reappointed former Continental Congress president, Peyton Randolph; and secretary, Charles Thomson, to reprise their roles at the Second Congress.
  • Randolph was soon called away by other duties and succeeded by John Hancock as president.
  • Other notable members of the Congress included Thomas Jefferson, Benjamin Franklin, and John Adams.

• The Muckrakers

  • The term is a reference to a character in John Bunyan's classic Pilgrim's Progress, who rejected salvation to focus on filth, and is therefore described as "the Man with the Muck-rake. " It became a popular term after President Theodore Roosevelt referred to the character in a 1906 speech.
  • Publishers of yellow journals, such as Joseph Pulitzer and William Randolph Hearst, focused on increasing circulation through scandal, crime, entertainment and sensationalism.

• A New Direction for Unions

  • Most AFL leaders, including president William Green, were reluctant to shift from the organization's longstanding tradition of craft unionism and started to clash with other leaders within the organization, such as John L.
  • Philip Randolph and his Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters gathering black workers constitute an exception in the AFL membership).
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• African Americans in WWII

  • Philip Randolph, prominent civil rights leader, along with colleague Grant Reynolds, renewed efforts to end discrimination in the armed services, forming the Committee Against Jim Crow in Military Service and Training, later renamed the League for Non-Violent Civil Disobedience Against Military Segregation.
  • Thomas, First Lieutenant John R.

• The Muckrakers

  • Publishers of yellow journals, such as Joseph Pulitzer and William Randolph Hearst, were more intent on increasing circulation through scandal, crime, entertainment and sensationalism.
  • McClure and John Sanborn Phillips started McClure's Magazine in May 1893.
  • Hendrick, George Kennan (explorer), John Moody (financial analyst), Henry Reuterdahl, George Kibbe Turner, and Judson C.
  • Galvin and John Moody), Collier's Weekly (Samuel Hopkins Adams, C.P.
  • Hampton, John L.

• The Role of Religion in the Civil Rights Movement

  • Philip Randolph and Bayard Rustin, the overall presence of religious values that shaped the Civil Rights Movement marked also the 1963 march.
  • Led by Reverend Hosea Williams of SCLC and John Lewis of SNCC, the marchers were attacked by state Ttoopers, deputy sheriffs, and mounted possemen who used tear gas, clubs, and bull whips to drive them back to Brown Chapel.