Alexander Stephens

(noun)

(February 11, 1812–March 4, 1883) An American politician from Georgia. He was Vice President of the Confederate States of America during the American Civil War. He also served as a U.S. Representative from Georgia (both before the Civil War and after Reconstruction) and as the 50th Governor of Georgia from 1882 until his death in 1883.

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Examples of Alexander Stephens in the following topics:

  • Confederate Politics

    • Vice President Alexander Stephens was a strong proponent of states' rights, placing this principle above military considerations.
    • Throughout the war, Stephens denounced many of the President's policies, including conscription, suspension of the writ of habeas corpus, impressment, various financial and taxation policies, and Davis' military strategy.
    • Benjamin, Stephen Mallory, Alexander Stephens, Jefferson Davis, John Henninger Reagan, and Robert Toombs.
  • Government During the War

    • In February 1861, the six states that had seceded at that point formed the Confederate States of America and unanimously elected Jefferson Davis as president and Alexander Stephens as provisional vice president.
  • Confederate Diplomacy

    • Arguments on behalf of the Confederacy's sovereign status and the legality of secession were published by Jefferson Davis, former president of the Confederacy, and Alexander Stephens, its former vice president.
  • Minstrel Shows

    • Popular composers of the era included Stephen Foster and Daniel Emmett.
    • For instance, the African Grove Theatre in New York City founded in 1821 by freed black man William Alexander Brown was frequented by a large cross-section of black New York society prior to the abolition of slavery in that state.
  • From Gradualism to Abolition

    • Indeed, many Northern leaders married into slave-owning Southern families without any moral qualms, including Stephen Douglas (the Democratic nominee for president in 1860), John C.
    • Though illegal under the Fugitive Slave Law of 1850, participants such as Harriet Tubman, Henry Highland Garnet, Alexander Crummell, Amos Noë Freeman, and others put themselves at risk to help slaves escape to freedom.
  • Hamilton's Achievements

    • Alexander Hamilton's broad interpretation of Constitutional powers has influenced multiple generations of political theorists.
    • Alexander Hamilton's broad interpretation of Constitutional powers has influenced multiple generations of American leaders and political theorists.
    • Identify several of Alexander Hamilton's key accomplishments and the constitutional principle that made them possible
  • Hamilton's Legacy

    • Alexander Hamilton's broad interpretation of Constitutional powers has influenced multiple generations of political theorists.
    • Alexander Hamilton was President Washington’s Secretary of the Treasury and was an ardent nationalist who believed a strong federal government could solve many of the new country’s financial ills.
    • By 1787, Alexander Hamilton had served as assemblyman from New York County in the New York State Legislature and was the first delegate chosen for the Constitutional Convention.
    • Alexander Hamilton's broad interpretation of Constitutional powers has influenced multiple generations of American leaders and political theorists.
  • The Lecompton Constitution

    • Meanwhile, despite the controversial Dred Scott decision, Stephen Douglas and many other Northern Democrats continued their support of popular sovereignty as the final authority on the admission of slavery into new territories, while Republicans denounced any measure that would allow for the expansion of slavery.
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  • American Republicanism

    • Some notable figures include Samuel Adams, Patrick Henry, George Washington, Thomas Paine, Benjamin Franklin, John Adams, Thomas Jefferson, James Madison and Alexander Hamilton.
    • Federalists, led by Alexander Hamilton, supported programs like a National Bank, because they believed that American republicanism should feature a strong federal government as well as a commercial and industrial society that traded extensively with Europe.
  • Hamilton's Economic Policy

    • Alexander Hamilton, the first Secretary of the Treasury, strongly influenced the financial policies of the United States during the Federalist Era.
    • George Washington appointed Alexander Hamilton as the first U.S.
    • Secretary of the Treasury, Alexander Hamilton , shown here in a 1792 portrait by John Trumbull, released the “Report on Public Credit” in January 1790.
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