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The Young America Movement was an American political, cultural and literary movement in the mid-19th century. Inspired by European reform movements of the 1830s (such as Junges Deutschland, Young Italy and Young Hegelians ), the American group was formed as a political organization in 1845 by Edwin de Leon and George Henry Evans.
Young America Movement, philosophical, economic, spiritual, and political concept in vogue in the United States during the mid-1840s and early 1850s. Taking as its inspiration the European youth movements of the 1830s, Young America flowered a decade later in the United States.
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The Young America Movement was an American political, cultural and literary movement in the mid-19th century. Inspired by European reform movements of the 1830s, the American group was formed as a political organization in 1845 by Edwin de Leon and George Henry Evans.
The Young Americans were a nationalist movement within theDemocratic Party made up of writers and politicians associated withthe New York periodical, the Democr...
- Mark Power Smith
ISBN 9780521875646. Young America and Antebellum Politics. The label Young America surfaced in the 1840s to denote an exuberant romantic nationalism and the literati who espoused it. Rather a spirit than a movement, a feeling than a faction, it lacked a precise program or constituency.
The phrase 'Young America' connoted territorial and commercial expansion in the antebellum United States. During the years leading up to the Civil War, it permeated various parts of the Democratic party, producing new perspectives in the realms of economics, foreign policy, and constitutionalism.
Feb 21, 2024 · Young America: The Transformation of Nationalism before the Civil War. By Mark Power Smith. (Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2022. Pp. 292. Cloth, $49.50.) A rich work of intellectual and political history, Mark Power Smith’s Young America documents the role of the Young America movement within the antebellum Democratic Party.
