The Beards Were Right: Parties in the North, 1840–1860

Egnal, Marc

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“…The Great Lakes region “carried the commerce for a booming regional economy that involved at least seven states. The Great Lakes, in short, were the heart of a powerful, dynamic, far‐reaching regional economy” (Egnal, 2001, p. 46). Although a part of the region, New York's instability worried WOC and pointed him from California to new venture opportunities in Michigan, Illinois and elsewhere.…”

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W.O. Carpenter and the California Gold Rush: the making of entrepreneurial opportunities

Fleischman

Kidwell²,

Kidwell³

2008

Journal of Management History

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PurposeThe purpose of this paper is to trace the entrepreneurial opportunity identification process of William Oscar Carpenter (WOC), a nineteenth century farmer, who went to California in 1850 to make his fortune in gold mining and ended up starting several new business ventures. The paper seeks to recount WOC's experiences and then apply them to similar issues faced by entrepreneurs in a modern‐day developing economy.Design/methodology/approachUsing qualitative inquiry through archival research, the paper examines a compilation of WOC's letters to his future wife in New York. The letters provide a detailed account of the hardships and poor living conditions faced by gold seekers. The letters are examined and interpreted in the context of opportunity identification and the California Gold Rush, then applied to contemporary entrepreneurs.FindingsWOC's letters elucidate the difficulties encountered making the trip from the East Coast to California, give later generations an historical viewpoint on a variety of social issues, and detail WOC's entrepreneurial activities in California. After a brief period as a successful miner, WOC's business career developed and branched out in different directions as he perceived entrepreneurial opportunities associated with the California Gold Rush. His story is an excellent example of opportunity recognition that has implications for current entrepreneurial activity.Originality/valueWOC's awareness, anticipation, and timely action regarding business opportunity can be related, compared and contrasted with entrepreneurial activity today. The paper discusses these implications in light of opportunity recognition research and developing entrepreneurial economies.

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W.O. Carpenter and the California Gold Rush: the making of entrepreneurial opportunities

Fleischman

Kidwell²,

Kidwell³

2008

Journal of Management History

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“…Ethnocultural and economic theories of voting behavior provide conflicting explanations for why Americans voted the way they did in the nineteenth century, the former suggesting that ethnic and religious issues and divisions drove electoral behavior, the latter arguing that elections were principally contested over economic issues and divisions. Recent studies using aggregate data from Congressional districts, such as the percentage of the population employed in agriculture or manufacturing, argue that marginalized economic groups opposed the Republican Party's support for the gold standard, tariffs, and industrial modernization (Bensel 2000; Egnal 2001; Gilligan, Marshal, and Weingast 1989; Jenkins, Schickler, and Carson 2004; Lynch 2002b; Ritter 1997; Sanders 1999). Others use insights from contemporary research (Erikson 1990; Fiorina 1981; Kinder and Kiewiet 1979; Kramer 1971) to argue that nineteenth‐century voters punished incumbents during periods of economic decline or instability (Holt 1992; Lin 1999; Lynch 1999).…”

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Religion and Nineteenth-Century Voting Behavior: A New Look at Some Old Data

DeCanio

2007

The Journal of Politics

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Recent studies of nineteenth-century voting behavior have focused on how economic variables influenced elections during this period. Employing underutilized individual-level data from the 1870s, this paper argues that such studies overstate the influence of economic variables upon electoral behavior. Specifically, Democratic voters principally cast ballots on the basis of economic issues and divisions, while Republicans were primarily concerned with religious and cultural issues. These results suggest that the Democratic and Republican parties attracted voters on the basis of different policy dimensions, indicating that both ethnocultural and economic considerations affected both political parties, albeit in divergent ways.

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Wartime Political Economy

Adams¹

2014

A Companion to the U.S. Civil War

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The Beards Were Right: Parties in the North, 1840–1860

Cited by 15 publications

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W.O. Carpenter and the California Gold Rush: the making of entrepreneurial opportunities

W.O. Carpenter and the California Gold Rush: the making of entrepreneurial opportunities

Religion and Nineteenth-Century Voting Behavior: A New Look at Some Old Data

Wartime Political Economy

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