The Federalist frontier : settler politics in the Old Northwest, 1783-1840 /

The Federalist Frontier traces the development of Federalist policies and the Federalist Party in the first three states of the Northwest Territory, Ohio, Indiana and Illinois, from the nation's first years until the rise of the Second Party System in the 1820s and 1830s. Relying on government...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Maulden, Kristopher, 1981- (Author)
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	Columbia : University of Missouri Press, [2019]
Series:	Studies in constitutional democracy.
Subjects:	Federal Party (U.S.) Pioneers > Political activity > Northwest, Old. Northwest, Old > Politics and government. United States > Territorial expansion.

Table of Contents:

Introduction: The log cabin on Washington Street : Federalists and the early American state in the Old Northwest
A contested land : the Ohio Valley in the 1780s
"To show all lawless adventurers" : the Northwest Indian War, 1789-1795
The speculator's republic : Federalists in territorial Ohio
Energy and republicanism : Jeffersonian administration in Indiana and Illinois
"Our strength is our union" : Federalists in Ohio, 1803-1815
Frontier Federalists to western Whigs : the rise of a new coalition
Epilogue: Up the capitol steps : Abraham Lincoln and the new western Whigs.