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Identifier	Thesis 1679
Author	Camire, Joseph E., III
Title	Connecticut Nineteenth Century Political History: Transitions in Republican Ideology and the Coming of the Civil War
Publisher	Central Connecticut State University
Date	2003
Resource Type	Master's Thesis
Notes	In the middle of the 1800s the American nation ceased to be the United States and engaged in five horrible years of bloodshed. As the facts concerning the battles and fighting became concrete, and the actions of those who fought in the Civil War were forever immortalized in history books and movies, historians have struggled to come to a clear consensus on one aspect of the War Between the States. Why did it happen? The two most prominent themes used to explain the actions of those in the north and south leading to the Civil War, the irrepressible and repressible conflict schools, point to specific actions and events as catalysts to the conflict. Missing until now has been a study which attempts to bridge these two theories, continuing to develop the concept that a transition in republican ideology motivated the population to vote along sectional lines during the Ante Bellum years, exposing a political generation that willingly manipulated the issues leading directly to the clash of arms. The intention of this study will be to follow the paths of the irrepressible and repressible conflict schools, point out the way in which the two can be linked through republican ideology, and arrive at a conclusion creating a new synthesis of Civil War causation. Several lines of thought will run through the entire paper, but the single motivating factor for the reshaping of the American nation through political change and full scale war will be based on republicanism. This emotional belief system, which erupted with the Revolutionary fervor of the Founding Fathers, characterized the need of the people to safeguard their liberties, and carefully watch out for tyrannous actions on the part of their elected leaders, so as to avoid the monarchial rule they threw off during the 1770s. The decade leading to the Civil War witnessed political controversy creating an unprecedented alteration in the two party government system. When the demise of the Whig Party appeared imminent, new organizations formed on a variety of political levels, rising to challenge the Democrats. By attempting to recreate campaign policy through the use of republicanism as a political tool, groups provoked voters into frenzied action that manipulated them to emotionally cast their ballots. In the state of Connecticut this metamorphosis was partly a microcosm of events witnessed throughout the country and also the epitome of how the north wanted to reach a final conclusion on state's rights. Utilizing the idea that only a cooperative effort of disgruntled organizations could challenge for control on both the state and federal level, the Connecticut Republican Party fueled the needs of a large population without a political platform. With the use of midnight parades, orators of varying intellect, posters, pamphlets, and newspaper editorials, the Republicans were able to swiftly move from nonexistent to the dominant party in the state and country. Historians have continued to discuss the rise of the Republican Party and debate whether it was this party that led to the Civil War. What has been omitted, however, was a more concentrated view of what motivated the people to vote as they did, bringing a sectionally based party with little sympathy for compromise to dominance in the national government. As new generations took hold of the theory, republican ideology moved from the moralistic guardian it had been intended as, and became a veneer for gluttonous politicians bent on grasping for power. When statesman began utilizing the belief system to enrage the people against one another along a horizontal geographic line in the United States, they forced slavery, economic differences, and ethnocultural incompatibilities from issues handled through concessions by national representatives, to the promotion of scare tactics with the intent of gaining voters. Without the ability to allow members of the government to compromise and work out these problems, they were instead accused of working against republicanism and therefore created tyranny that needed to be defeated. The United States thus moved from a repressible conflict to an irrepressible Civil War.
Subject	Connecticut -- Politics and government -- 1861-1865
Department	Department of History
Advisor	Warshauer, Matthew, 1965-
Type	Text
Digital Format	application/pdf
Language	eng
OCLC number	713733898
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