Username:  
Password:  
Customize your search:   [refine search][refine search][refine search]
 
· Type your specific word or phrase in the box above
  and then click Search.
· Put exact phrases in quotation marks. Do not put single
  words in quotation marks.


Look for related topics at questia.com

Book details

Southern Mountain Republicans, 1865-1900: Politics and the Appalachian Community
Southern Mountain Republicans, 1865-1900: Politics and the Appalachian Community
Look inside this book

Free preview pages
*, *, *, *, *, *, *, *, *, *, xi, xii, xiii, xiv, *, *, 3, 4, 5, 6, 12, 30, 62, 75, 110, 124, 142, 183, 205, 223, 257, 271, *
search in this book
search the library
Discover questia

Southern Mountain Republicans, 1865-1900: Politics and the Appalachian Community

by Gordon B. Mckinney. 277 pgs.

Read the complete book Southern Mountain Republicans, 1865-1900: Politics and the Appalachian Community by becoming a questia.com member. Choose a membership plan to an academic-level library with more than 67,000 full-text books, 1.5 million articles, an entire reference set with a dictionary, encyclopedia, thesaurus plus a collection of digital tools to organize your information.
 

publication details

Contributors:

   Gordon B. Mckinney

Publisher:

   University of North Carolina Press

Place of Publication:

  Chapel Hill, NC  

Publication Year:

  1978
Subjects:   Republican Party (U.S. : 1854- )--History, Appalachian Region, Southern--Politics And Government
Table of contents
Advanced Search
Customize your search:   [refine search][refine search][refine search]
 
· Type your specific word or phrase in the box above
  and then click Search.
· Put exact phrases in quotation marks. Do not put single
  words in quotation marks.

Questia Books and Articles on Similar Subjects
We found: 10709 results
By media type:
 

Books:

 

10306  

 

Journal articles:

 

321  

 

Magazine articles:

 

41  

 

Newspaper articles:

 

16  

 

Encyclopedia articles:

 

25  
 

books on: (Republican Party U S 1854 History) OR (Appalachian Region Southern Politics And Government)  - 10306 results

       More book Results: 1-10 11-20 21-30 31-40 41-50 >>  
 
1.
Southern Mountain Republicans, 1865-1900: Politics and the Appalachian Community
Book by Gordon B. McKinney; University of North Carolina Press, 1978
Subjects: Appalachian Region, Southern--Politics And Government, Republican Party (U.S. : 1854- )--History
...population, Republican racial policies were a liability. 1 The history of the party in the highlands during Reconstruction was one of trying...benefits of federal assistance. The problem that mountain Republican politicians faced was that they rarely had control over...movement to have the state reconstructed. 45 President U. S. Grant sympathized to the extent of removing Senters followers...
2.
Race and the Rise of the Republican Party, 1848-1865
Book by James D. Bilotta; Peter Lang, 1992
Subjects: Antislavery movements--United States, Free Soil Party (U.S.), Racism--United States--History--19th century, Republican Party (U.S. : 1854- )--History--19th century, United States--Politics and government--1849-1877
...large black population centered in the Southern states. "Race avails much," warned Emerson...the blood of the white and black races. Southern writers generally believed that slavery...deterioration would result in our American Southern society were intermarriages between them...
3.
A New Birth of Freedom: The Republican Party and Freedmen's Rights, 1861 to 1866
Book by Herman Belz; Fordham University Press, 2000
Subjects: African Americans--Civil Rights--History, Republican Party (U.S. : 1854- )--History
...captured Negro troops according to southern state laws and reenslaved or...Burnett, The American Theory of Government (New York, 1861), 49. 49. W...a potential force in postwar politics. Interwoven with these practical...hlacks the right to reside in southern states in derogation of state constitutions...rebel areas and denied that the government could ever recognize emancipated...seemed designed to appeal to southern Unionism if not to encourage peace...pledge of public faith that the government could not honorably withdraw. tg...
4.
The Early History of the Republican Party
Book by Andrew Wallace Crandall; Richard G. Badger, 1930
Subjects: Republican Party (U.S. : 1854- )--History, United States--Politics And Government--1853-1857
...THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA THE GORHAM PRESS, BOSTON, U. S. A. PREFACE The ensuing monograph was prepared as a doctors...has been written on the origin and development of the Republican Party, there has been, formerly, no attempt at an exhaustive study...288 PART I THE EMERGENCE OF A NEW PARTY THE EARLY HISTORY OF THE REPUBLICAN PARTY CHAPTER I POLITICAL...of the Appalachians. But the political revolution of 1854 -- 1856 cannot be entirely accounted for by the instability...
5.
Hostile Takeover: The House Republican Party, 1980-1995
Book by Douglas L. Koopman; Rowman & Littlefield, 1996
Subjects: Republican Party (U.S. : 1854- ), United States--Congress--House, United States--Politics And Government--1981-1989, United States--Politics And Government--1989-
...in the United States. Congress Permanent Minority? Republicans in the U.S. House by William F. Connelly, Jr., and John J. Pitney, Jr. Hostile Takeover: The House Republican Party, 1980-1995 by Douglas L. Koopman HOSTILE TAKEOVER...bibliographical references and index. 1. Republican Party U.S. : 1854- . 2. United States. Congress. House. 3. United States...especially useful for a Republican party with a long history of fighting over the best strategy to gain a congressional...
More book Results: 1-10 11-20 21-30 31-40 41-50 >>

Top...
 

journal articles on: (Republican Party U S 1854 History) OR (Appalachian Region Southern Politics And Government)  - 321 results

       More journal Results: 1-10 11-20 21-30 31-40 41-50 >>  
 
1.
U.S. Presidential Elections in the Nineteenth Century: Why Culture and the Economy Both Mattered
Journal article by G. Patrick Lynch; Polity, Vol. 35, 2002
Subjects: Political science--Research, Presidents--Elections, Republican Party--Political activity
...that appealed to specific groups of voters. The Democratic party, particularly in the early twentieth-century, regularly...nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Table 1 lists every U.S. business contraction and expansion between 1854 and 1932 and the corresponding presidential elections...presidential election outcomes from 1854 to 1932. The Republican party was shackled with a thirty-two month recession before...the 1960s and 1970s re-invigorated the field of economic history for study. Then, in the 1980s several scholars in political...
2.
Civic Ideals: Conflicting Visions of Citizenship in U.S. History
Journal article by Peter J. Spiro; Stanford Law Review, Vol. 51, 1999
Subjects: Books--Reviews, Civic Ideals: Conflicting Visions of Citizenship in U.S. History (Book)--Reviews
...as ungenerous as it was gross," and accepted the Southern regime of segregation.(42) This history can be...of pillars. The ascriptive tradition of American politics has not merely been an important part of the American...subgroupism in which racial, ethnic, religious, and regional identities can trump national ones. In these circumstances...the broader societys leaders may find that their government lacks adequate popular support to perform some functions...is not only state identities, but also local and regional forms of subnational identity that are reemerging...some difficulty distinguishing a Northern from a Southern Italian, though the difference to Italians would...chose one citizenship over another."). The federal government is constitutionally constrained from stripping an...
3.
Civil War Origins of the Southern Republican Press
Journal article by Richard H. Abbott; Civil War History, Vol. 43, 1997
Subjects: Newspapers--History, Republican Party--Newspapers and periodicals, United States history--Civil War, 1861-1865
...was a doctor who had come to Memphis from Mississippi in 1854. In 1861 a mob had chased him from the city because he...to chastise the Rebels: in 1864 he recommended that the Republicans make Pennsylvania radical leader Thaddeus Stevens president...Rebels, and at Johnsons request Seward rewarded him with a U.S. government printing contract. In February 1864, James...protection. Both Brownlow and Hood helped organize a Unionist party in eastern Tennessee.(33) Divisions soon began to appear...3-20 (2) Frank Luther Mott, American Journalism, A History: 1690-1960, 3d ed. (New York: Macmillan, 1962), 167-92...
4.
Feelin' Mighty Southern: Recent Scholarship on Southern Appalachia in the Civil War
Journal article by Noel Fisher; Civil War History, Vol. 47, 2001
Subjects: Appalachian Region--History, Mountain whites (Southern States)--History, Slavery--History, United States history--Civil War, 1861-1865
...Civil War, the first work purporting to offer a comprehensive history of an Appalachian region in the 1860s. The authors, John...pioneers in the study of Appalachia. McKinneys Southern Mountain Republicans, 1865-1900: Politics and the Appalachian Community perceptively...dissatisfaction with the conduct of the war powered the new Opposition party to victory over the so-called Confederate party, represented...
5.
Violence Against the Press in U.S. History
Journal article by John C. Nerone; Journal of Communication, Vol. 40, 1990
Subjects: Communication
...violence has been common throughout U.S. history, it would be wrong to conclude that...Labor, Free Men: The Ideology of the Republican Party Before the Civil War . New York...Civil War on the Western Border, 1854-1865 . Philadelphia: University of...Wolseley, Roland E. The Black Press, U.S.A. Ames: Iowa State University Press...Press Control, 1763-1775". Journalism History 1(1), Spring 1974 , pp. 11-15...
More journal Results: 1-10 11-20 21-30 31-40 41-50 >>

Top...
 

magazine articles on: (Republican Party U S 1854 History) OR (Appalachian Region Southern Politics And Government)  - 41 results

       More magazine Results: 1-10 11-20 21-30 31-40 41-41 >>  
 
1.
The Chieftains and the Church: An Intellectual Audit of the Democrats and the Republicans
Magazine article by Ted Halstead; The Atlantic Monthly, Vol. 293, January 2004
Subjects: Democratic Party--Evaluation, Political culture, Political culture--Analysis, Political parties, Political parties--Evaluation, Republican Party--Evaluation, United States--Political aspects
...between the Democratic and Republican Parties. Ever since 1854, when the implosion of the Whigs paved the way for the birth of the Republican Party (twenty-six years after the emergence of the Democrats...signs that this is not the Republican Party of George W.s father. Indeed, its identity seems to have no clear lineage...expanded free trade--rather than pressure Congress to reduce U.S. agricultural subsidies. In similar fashion, the Bush...by mainstream economists and shown false by the record of history. The party also uses supply-side economics to justify tax...
2.
On Abortion: A Lincolnian Position
Magazine article by George Mckenna; The Atlantic Monthly, Vol. 276, September 1995
Subjects: Abortion--Ethical aspects, Abortion--Moral and ethical aspects, Democratic Party--Social policy, Lincoln, Abraham--Social policy, Pro-choice movement--Political aspects, Republican Party--Social policy, Slavery--Ethical aspects
...demanding the assignment of U.S. marshals to protect abortion...the corpse at the dinner party. Douglas and the Democrats...pushed through Congress in 1854. Nullifying the Missouri...Douglas. Lincoln and the Republicans Lincoln had virtually...independence--repeal all past history, you still can not repeal...Republican presidential politics, most Republican candidates...opposed to the use of government to promote social goals...follows: American party politics is very tricky, at times...distrust of "energetic government"--the Democrats were wary...
3.
Taking Turns
Magazine article by George Weeks, Don Weeks; State Legislatures, Vol. 19, July 1993
Subjects: Democratic Party (Michigan)--Elections, Hertel, Curtis--Contracts, Hillegonds, Paul--Contracts, Michigan. Legislature. House--Officials and employees, Republican Party (Michigan)--Elections
...congratulations!" Engler has been part of the Michigan Capitols history of periodic polarization between the parties and between the executive and legislative branches, regardless of party. Conflict between "dictatorial" governors and "obstructionist...cooperative era during the 1969-82 administration of moderate Republican William G. Milliken, Michigans longest-serving governor...Jackson area where the GOP was founded "Under the Oaks" in 1854. (Michigans claim to be the birthplace of the Republican...he was on the margin of radical politics, questioning the U.S. policy and fearing the draft. He considered spending a...
4.
Courting Catholics
Magazine article by Kate O'Beirne; National Review, Vol. 47, June 26, 1995
Subjects: American Catholics--Political activity, Catholics in the United States--Political activity, Religion and politics--Analysis, Republican Party--Political activity
...Catholics. by Kate OBeirne RAYMOND Flynn, U.S. Ambassador to the Holy See, recently wrote to the National...responding to a political development that has escaped most Republicans: the Catholic vote is now up for grabs, and neither party can win the White House without it. In Republican circles...paid to the fact that last fall, for the first time in history, a majority of Catholics voted for Republican congressional...completing a book, Catholics and the Republican Party, 1854 - 1992, believes the swing last November is particularly...
5.
Rape of the Appalachians
Magazine article by Jedediah S. Purdy; The American Prospect, November 1998
Subjects: Appalachian Mountains--Environmental aspects, Coal industry--Environmental policy, Mines and mineral resources--Environmental aspects, United States. Environmental Protection Agency--Environmental policy
...Appalachians by Jedediah S. Purdy Driving his battered...of any other fossil fuel. U.S. coal production went over...the economic and political history of this nation. You know the...as caving in when the 1995 Republican Congress passed a 25 percent...policies and to permit state governments to respond to local conditions...the challenge of effective government is not to unload federal programs...
More magazine Results: 1-10 11-20 21-30 31-40 41-41 >>

Top...
 

newspaper articles on: (Republican Party U S 1854 History) OR (Appalachian Region Southern Politics And Government)  - 16 results

       More newspaper Results: 1-10 11-16 >>  
 
1.
A Storied Record on Civil Rights; the 150-Year-Old Roots of the Republican Party
Newspaper article; The Washington Times, February 23, 2006
Subjects: Political parties, Republican Party (United States)
...pro-slavery agenda of the Democratic Party. On March 20, 1854, several dozen men and women in Ripon, Wis., called for a new political party, to be called the Republican Party. A few months later, on July 6, a convention of 10...forged the statue "Freedom," which sits atop the dome of the U.S. Capitol. The Republican Party should stop throwing away...capital, because the more we Republicans know about the history of our party, the more the Democrats will worry about the...
2.
Inside the Beltway
Newspaper article by John Mccaslin; The Washington Times, January 21, 2000
Subjects: Republican Party
...enter the nomination race, facing among others a former U.S. attorney, a trial lawyer, a pair of state senators...advisory committee, contemplated running on the Reform Party ticket, but theres already a candidate there, too...its meaning?" And who better to ask about the GOPs history but the GOP itself. "The GOP dates back to the 1870s," explains the Republican National Committee, "when the Boston Post shouted...Republican Party was established. That happened on July 6, 1854, in Jackson, Mich. Six short years later a tall Republican presidential candidate, Abe Lincoln, was making history. * John McCaslin can be reached at 202/636-3284 or...
3.
`New South' Outgrows Boundaries: Influence Being Felt in Politics, Religion, Culture
Newspaper article by Larry Witham; The Washington Times, March 29, 1996
...of more than 70 million people, more than one-quarter of the U.S. population. Those states provide 147 electoral college votes...Carter and Bill Clinton - its states have increasingly swung Republican. This illustrates yet another paradox of the New South. Liberal...
4.
33 Acres of History Engraved on Stone
Newspaper article; The Washington Times, May 12, 2007
...in office. Butler co-authored the Kansas-Nebraska Act of 1854, which many abolitionists thought undermined the Missouri...both sides of the debate and transformed the struggling Republican Party into a political force. Not far away lies Mathew Brady...The funeral procession, at that time the largest in the history of the city, was led by President Lincoln and Secretary...breveted to major general. Joseph Humphreys served in the U.S. Navy until 1853, when he resigned his commission and went...
5.
Lincoln's Message as War Drew Near
Newspaper article by Edward C. Smith; The Washington Times, January 11, 1997
...of militant New England intellectuals and clerics. In 1854, the adoption of the Kansas-Nebraska Act raised the temperature...or slave states. This was also the year in which a new Republican Party was founded, and Lincoln became one of its early members...Kansas-Nebraska Act of four years earlier) for an Illinois seat in the U.S. Senate. The contestants engaged in seven spirited debates...Wilderness Battlefield is sponsoring a Civil War living-history program titled "The Life of a Civil War Soldier" from 10...
More newspaper Results: 1-10 11-16 >>

Top...
 

encyclopedia articles on: (Republican Party U S 1854 History) OR (Appalachian Region Southern Politics And Government)  - 25 results

       More encyclopedia Results: 1-10 11-20 21-25 >>  
 
1.
Civil War , in U.S. History
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...Toombs in the South. With the Kansas-Nebraska Act (1854) and the consequent struggle over "bleeding" Kansas the...Northern and Southern branches and dissolved the Whig party . Most Southern Whigs joined the Democratic party , one...remaining, if shaky, nationwide institutions. The new Republican party , heir to the Free-Soil party and to the Liberty...important, especially the forts in the harbor of Charleston, S.C. (see Fort Sumter ). The outgoing President, James...Semmes , destroyed or chased from the seas much of the U.S. merchant marine. The War in the West That the "war...see A. C. Cole, The Irrepressible Conflict, 1850 1865 ("History of American Life" series, Vol. VII, 1934; rev. ed. 1938...
2.
Free-Soil Party
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
FREE-SOIL PARTY in U.S. history, political party that came into existence in 1847 48 chiefly because of...president in 1852; he received more than 150,000 votes. In 1854 the party was absorbed into the new Republican party. See T. C. Smith, The Liberty and Free Soil Parties...
3.
Democratic Party
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...interests. Their ideals opposed to those of the Federalist party came to be known as Jeffersonian democracy, based in large...This group of Anti-Federalists, who called themselves Republicans or Democratic Republicans (the name was not fixed as Democratic...that has often been called a turning point in American history. With this election emerged an alliance between Southern...emergence of the sectional, antislavery Republican party in 1854 (succeeding the Free-Soil party ), the Democrats remained...in the nations history, and in 1940 he became the first U.S. President to be elected to a third term. After leading...
4.
United States
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...policies bred divisions along factional and, ultimately, party lines. Hamilton and his followers, who eventually formed...down by Thomas Jefferson and who became the Democratic Republican or Democratic party , favored narrow construction limited...the XYZ Affair and the "half war" (1798 1800), in which U.S. warships engaged French vessels in the Caribbean. The so-called...Buchanan . The passage of the Kansas-Nebraska Act (1854), which repealed the Missouri Compromise, led to violence...
5.
Know-Nothing Movement
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
KNOW-NOTHING MOVEMENT in U.S. history. The increasing rate of immigration in the 1840s encouraged...influences and to uphold the "American" view. The American Republican party, formed (1843) in New York, spread into neighboring states...Millard Fillmore and almost captured New York state in the 1854 election, while they did sweep the polls in Massachusetts...
More encyclopedia Results: 1-10 11-20 21-25 >>

Top...
© 2009 - Questia Media America, Inc. All rights reserved. All service marks and trademarks are property of Questia Media and its affiliates. Any advertising or navigational links included on this site are not necessarily endorsed by the publishers or content providers whose materials appear on this site.