YOUNG AMERICA MOVEMENT


Meaning of YOUNG AMERICA MOVEMENT in English

U.S. 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, 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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