... , oppositionists argued, carefully guided economic growth would provide more for everyone. Government encouragement "in the form of tariffs, internal improvements, a strong national bank, and aid to a wide range of benevolent institutions "was essential to that growth. Powerfully influenced by the evangelical Second Great Awakening, core oppositionists saw in moral reform not a threat to individual independence but an idealistic cooperative effort to relieve ... remained a bulwark of a new Democratic party, allying debt-ridden farmers and immigrant workers with the Solid South. The Secon...

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