Young America movement

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The Young America movement was a mid-19th-century American political and literary faction that promoted democratic expansionism, cultural nationalism, and progressive reform within the Democratic Party.

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instanceOf literary movement
political movement
activeInPeriod mid-19th century
associatedWith Democratic Review NERFINISHED
Franklin Pierce NERFINISHED
George N. Sanders NERFINISHED
Herman Melville NERFINISHED
John L. O'Sullivan NERFINISHED
Nathaniel Hawthorne NERFINISHED
Stephen A. Douglas NERFINISHED
Walt Whitman NERFINISHED
Young America (literary circle) NERFINISHED
country United States of America
surface form: United States
culturalProgram celebration of American democracy in literature
promotion of American authors
rejection of excessive European cultural influence
declinedInDecade 1850s
emergedInDecade 1840s
goal foster a distinct American literature
modernize the Democratic Party
promote American commercial expansion
promote American territorial expansion
support republican revolutions abroad
hasPoliticalOrientation left wing of the Democratic Party (for its time)
historicalContext antebellum United States NERFINISHED
ideology American cultural nationalism NERFINISHED
democratic expansionism
progressive reform
influenced American literary nationalism
Democratic Party rhetoric on expansion
influencedBy European romantic nationalism NERFINISHED
Jacksonian democracy NERFINISHED
opposedBy Whig Party NERFINISHED
conservative Democrats
partOf Democratic Party (United States) NERFINISHED
position pro-democracy
pro-expansion
pro-reform
support for Manifest Destiny
support for annexation of Cuba
support for expansion into Latin America
support for expansion into the Pacific
support for free trade
support for internal improvements
support for popular sovereignty in the territories
support for railroad expansion
support for urban and industrial development
relatedConcept American exceptionalism NERFINISHED
Manifest Destiny NERFINISHED

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Cornelius Mathews movement Young America movement