This article is about the land reform group founded in 1844. For the Christian organization founded in 1864, see National Reform Association (1864).
The National Reform Association was an American radicalreformist 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 reforms.[1] 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 Act of 1862.
In his 1846 pamphlet Vote Yourself a Farm, George Henry Evans writes:[2]
Vote Yourself a Farm and... Wealth would become a changed social element; it would then consist of the accumulated products of human labor, instead of a hoggish monopoly of the products of God's labor; and the antagonism of capital and labor would forever cease.
^Fure-Slocum, Eric (1995-01-01). "Urban Poverty and "The Right to Cultivate the Earth": American Land Reformers in the 1840s". Iowa Journal of Cultural Studies. 1995 (14): 120–132. doi:10.17077/2168-569X.1211.
^McCarthy, Timothy Patrick; McMillian, John Campbell (2011-05-10). The Radical Reader: A Documentary History of the American Radical Tradition. The New Press. ISBN978-1-59558-742-8.
^Murray, John E. (1996). "Henry George and the Shakers: Evolution of Communal Attitudes Towards Land Ownership". The American Journal of Economics and Sociology. 55 (2): 245–256. doi:10.1111/j.1536-7150.1996.tb03205.x. ISSN 0002-9246. JSTOR 3487086.
December 18, 2023
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