New Departure

(noun)

The political strategy used by the Democratic Party in the United States after 1865 to distance itself from its proslavery history in an effort to broaden its political base, and to focus on issues—especially economic ones—where it had more of an advantage.

Related Terms

  • carpetbagger
  • redeemer
  • The Ku Klux Klan

Examples of New Departure in the following topics:

  • Change in the Democratic Party

    • In response, the Democrats tried a strategy called the "New Departure."
    • This "New Departure" offered the chance for a clean slate without having to symbolically fight the Civil War every election.
    • In the South, Democrats who embraced the "New Departure" called themselves "Redeemers."
    • In the lower South, violence continued and new insurgent groups arose.
    • The "New Departure" was strongly opposed by large factions of Democrats in the Deep South, who professed loyalty to the Confederate legacy.
  • Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Susan B. Anthony, and the Movement for Women's Suffrage

    • On July 19–20, 1848, in upstate New York, the Seneca Falls Convention on women's rights was hosted by Lucretia Mott, Mary Ann M'Clintock and Elizabeth Cady Stanton.
    • In the era before the American Civil War, Anthony took a prominent role in the New York anti-slavery and temperance movements.
    • Her Declaration of Sentiments, presented at the first women's rights convention held in 1848 in Seneca Falls, New York, is often credited with initiating the first organized woman's rights and woman's suffrage movements in the United States.
    • This constitutionally-based argument, which came to be called "the new departure" in women's rights circles because of its divergence from earlier attempts to change voting laws on a state-by-state basis, led to first Anthony (in 1872), and later Stanton (in 1880), going to the polls and demanding to vote.
  • Neglected Americans and the New Deal

    • Neither Roosevelt nor the New Deal agenda attempted to battle segregation, particularly in the South.
    • Some of the First New Deal flagship programs either excluded or even hurt African Americans.
    • However, other New Deal programs produced much more positive outcomes for African Americans.
    • Modest yet tangible changes that the New Deal promised to black Americans as well as a generational shift shaped this historical departure from the Republican Party.
    • Evaluate to what extent African Americans and women benefitted from New Deal policies
  • Women and Slavery

    • This was a departure from English common law, which held that children took their father's status.
    • A considerable class of free people of color developed in and around New Orleans and Mobile.
    • By the late 1700s, New Orleans had a relatively formalized system of plaçage among Creoles of color, which continued under Spanish rule.
  • In Quest of Freedom

    • The evacuation of Charleston in December 1782 saw the departure of more than 5,000 blacks.
    • They sailed to New York, England, and Nova Scotia.
    • In New York, the British created a registry of escaped slaves, called the "Book of Negroes".
    • On January 15, 1792, 1,193 blacks left Halifax for West Africa and a new life.
    • John Jay (1745–1829), founder of the abolitionist organization New York Manumission Society in 1785.
  • Gibbons v. Ogden

    • The decision overturned the New York state legislature's monopoly over certain steamships operating between New York and New Jersey.
    • Indeed, Marshall's opinion in Gibbons would be cited by the Supreme Court much later when it upheld aspects of the New Deal in cases like Wickard v.
    • Aaron Ogden filed a complaint in the Court of Chancery of New York asking the court to restrain Thomas Gibbons from operating on the waters of Ogden's route between Elizabethtown, New Jersey and New York City.
    • The Court of Chancery of New York and the Court of Errors of New York ruled in favor of Ogden, and issued an injunction restricting Gibbons from operating Ogden's boats.
    • This theory entails, therefore, that the E.C Knight decision may be viewed not as a radical departure, but as a continuation of the original jurisprudence.
  • The Loyalists

    • In all, about 50,000 Loyalists served as soldiers or militia in the British forces, 19,000 Loyalists were enrolled on a regular army status, and 15,000 Loyalist soldiers and militia came from the Loyalist stronghold of New York.
    • Colonists in New York, New Jersey, and parts of North and South Carolina were ambivalent about the revolution.
    • New York City and Long Island were the British military and political bases of operations in North America from 1776 to 1783 and maintained a large concentration of Loyalists, many of whom were refugees from other states.
    • The departure of royal officials, rich merchants, and landed gentry destroyed the hierarchical networks that thrived in the colonies.
    • Recent non-Anglophone immigrants (especially Germans and Dutch), uncertain of their fate under the new regime, also fled.
  • Utopian Communities

    • In practice, men and women in Shaker communities were held as equals—a radical departure at the time—and women often outnumbered men.
    • The high point of the Shaker movement came in the 1830s, when about 6,000 members populated communities in New England, New York, Ohio, Indiana, and Kentucky.
    • New members only could come from conversions and from children brought to the Shaker villages.
    • Later, Scottish industrialist Robert Owen bought New Harmony and attempted to form a secular utopian community there.
    • The concept of complex marriage scandalized the townspeople in Putney, so Noyes and his followers moved to Oneida, New York.
  • The Republican Alternative

    • This new coalition was composed of politicians who were vehemently opposed to Hamilton's economic policies, the expanse of federal power under the direction of Washington and Adams, and the Jay Treaty with Britain.
    • After 1800, the party dominated Congress and most state governments outside New England.
    • It was singled out as a point of departure from European precedent, in which power transfers were often violent and bloody.
  • Escaping Hard Times

    • Following World War I there was a mass migration of Jazz musicians from New Orleans to major northern cities like Chicago and New York, leading to a wider dispersal of Jazz as different styles developed in different cities.
    • The most popular type of radio show was a "potter palm," an amateur concert and Big-band Jazz performance broadcast from New York and Chicago.
    • One of the most popular radio shows for young children in the 1930s was Little Orphan Annie, based on a newspaper cartoon strip created by Harold Gray that first appeared in the New York Daily News in 1924.
    • Between them, there was a flood of films for a public clamoring for Escapism, a departure into a world of fantasy that provided a way to forget the pain and drudgery of the period.
    • Disney’s marquee character, Mickey Mouse, made his debut in Steamboat Willie on November 18, 1928, at the Colony Theater in New York City.
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