| Book Review | The American Historical Review, 111.5

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Mark A. Lause. Young America: Land, Labor, and the Republican Community. Urbana and Chicago: University of Illinois Press. 2005. Pp. viii, 240. Cloth $42.00, paper $20.00.
Workers' movements in the nineteenth-century United States were urban. Agrarianism describes a movement of farmers to maintain rural institutions and traditional land uses. Utopian experiments interested very few people and had no influence over government. Mark A. Lause scratches these misconceptions and finds an untold story: one that links working men to utopians, Republicans to socialists, and western land with eastern labor in a manner that illuminates the political diversity of antebellum society.	1
This is the story of the National Reform Association (NRA), funded in 1844 in New York City. By the 1850s, two hundred newspapers endorsed the organization; it helped to elect a number of sympathetic candidates to Congress; and its most central measures enjoyed widespread popular support. Those measures had to do with the access of working people to land. The NRA advocated three measures to be taken up by government: land exemption, or the policy of reserving homesteads as inviolable against penalty of debt; a federal homestead act to make land available to anyone who wanted to settle on the public domain; and a limit on the amount of land any individual could own.	. . .

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