Young America movement

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The Young America Movement was United States political concept popular in the 1840s. Inspired by European youth movements of the 1830s (see Young Italy), the U.S. group was formed as a political organization in 1845 by Edwin de Leon and George H. Evans. It advocated free trade, social reform, expansion southward into the territories, and support for republican movements abroad. It became a faction in the Democratic Party in the 1850s. Sen. Stephen A. Douglas promoted its nationalistic program in an unsuccessful effort to compromise sectional differences.

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Eyal, Yonatan (2007) The Young America Movement and the Transformation of the Democratic Party 1828-1861. New York: Cambridge University Press.