The frontier republic : ideology and politics in the Ohio Country, 1780-1825 / Andrew R.L. Cayton.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Cayton, Andrew R. L. (Andrew Robert Lee), 1954-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Ohio--History--1787-1865.

Ohio.

Ohio--Politics and government--1787-1865.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (210 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Kent, OH : Kent State University Press, c1986.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Conflict invariably characterizes the period following any revolution, and post-revolutionary America was no exception. After the unity inspired by opposition to a common enemy dissipates, revolutionary movements generally splinter into different groups that compete with each other for the right to shape the values and structures of the new society. The Frontier Republic examines the form these conflicts took in the settlement of the Ohio Country, as thousands of Americans streamed onto the lands west of the Appalachians. These settlers had experienced revolution and migration: now the process of creating new communities and a new state in the Northwest Territory forced them to deliberate on, and define, what these upheavals had accomplished. At issue was the very nature of human society and the role of government in it. Jeffersonian Republican ideals of individual liberty and local sovereignty were at odds with the Federalist vision of a well-ordered society and political control on the national level. Disagreements arose over such topics as rights of squatters, establishment of authority of the national government, the statehood movement, and the location of the new state's capital. The effects of the Panic of 1819 and the need for internal improvements changed the early focus on individualism to an understanding of Ohio's place in an interdependent society. Although this first generation of settlers failed to resolve their disputes completely, they ensured that the ideological foundation of nineteenth-century Ohio would be a synthesis of their conflicting revolutionary visions of the future of the United States.

Contents:

""Cover ""; ""Copyright ""; ""Contents ""; ""Preface ""; ""1. Congress v. Squatters 1780-1786 ""; ""2. Planning the Republic: The Federalists and the Ohio Country 1786-1788 ""; ""3. Establishing the Authority of the National Government 1788-1798 ""; ""4. An Alliance of Local Interests 1790- 1798""; ""5. ""The Only Proper Judges of Their Own Interests"" 1798-1803 ""; ""6. Catalines and Contentiousness 1803-1807 ""; ""7. Matters of Opinion 1807-1812 ""; ""8. The Climax of a Liberal Society 1812-1819 ""; ""9. Conflict and Consensus 1819-1824 ""

""Conclusion: ""Ohio Has Behaved Nobly at Last"" """"Notes ""; ""Essay on Sources ""; ""Index ""

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-61277-007-X