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With economic and social change after 1818 came demands for political transformation. An oligarchy with roots deep in the pre-Conquest soil of Canada and New England was at odds with a rising bourgeois class in the towns and cities.
- John Douglas Belshaw
- 2015
Feb 7, 2006 · After the War of 1812, Upper Canada began to develop rapidly. This resulted in social and economic tensions and political issues. These included the expulsion of Robert Gourlay, the Alien Question, the Anglican monopoly of the Clergy Reserves and education, and Tory control of patronage.
Feb 17, 2023 · For centuries, intellectual and political authority came from religion and other traditional beliefs. To understand the world—including phenomena such as plagues of caterpillars—people would...
Conservatives initially feared nationalism, which they worried would undermine traditional social hierarchies and authority. But in the Napoleonic period conservative thinkers began to see the possibility that nationalism could be used to promote authority.
May 7, 2016 · Aware of the eventual emergence of an institutionalized two-party system, we search for its roots in this period, projecting our sense of political order onto a politics with its own distinct logic and integrity.
Political authority appeared to rest with the majority as never before. THE CAMPAIGN AND ELECTION OF 1828. During the 1800s, democratic reforms made steady progress with the abolition of property qualifications for voting and the birth of new forms of political party organization.
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Western Settlement and Politics. The situation dramatically changed in the first half of the nineteenth century. Land-hungry European Americans quickly began spilling west across the Appalachians and into territory called the “ Old Northwest ” and north into Vermont, Maine, and upstate New York.
