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National Reform Party (other)
National Reform or National Reformation may refer to: *National Reform Association (1844), a nineteenth-century American movement to lobby Congress to pass land reforms *National Reform Association (1864), a nineteenth-century American movement to amend the U.S. Constitution to include Christian language *National Reform Association (19th century, UK), a nineteenth-century British radical movement started by Joshua Walmsley *National Reform Movement (Antigua and Barbuda), a political party in Antigua and Barbuda *National Reform Party (Belize), a Belizean, Christian conservative political party seeking office under the following guiding principles *National Reform Party (Ghana), a political party in Ghana *National Reform Party (Greece) *National Reform Party (United States), an adjunct of the National Labor Union, established in 1868 *National Reform Party (Hawaii) *National Reform Trend, a political party in Iraq *National Reformation Party, a political party in Liberia *Movement ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
National Reform Association (1844)
The National Reform Association was an American Radicalism (historical), radical Reformism, reformist political organization, founded in 1844 by radicals George Henry Evans, Thomas Ainge Devyr, John Windt and others with the aim of lobbying Congress to pass a wide range of Land reform, land reforms. The NRA campaigned with the slogan "Vote Yourself a Farm", and the organization managed to achieve a wave of 55,000 petitions from Americans calling on Congress to open up free public lands to homesteaders, which lead to the successful Homestead Acts, Homestead Act of 1862. In his 1846 pamphlet ''Vote Yourself a Farm'', George Henry Evans writes: After George's death in 1856, the NRA was then managed by his younger brother and Shakers, Shaker Elder Frederick William Evans. The movement had a stronghold of support in the Northeastern United States, North-East, especially in the State of New York (state), New York where large tracts of land were owned by the Mount Lebanon Shaker Society ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |