Data and Code for: Leadership in Social Movements. The Forty-Eighters in the Civil War

Principal Investigator(s): View help for Principal Investigator(s) Christian Dippel, UCLA; Stephan Heblich, University of Toronto

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Project Citation:

Dippel, Christian, and Heblich, Stephan. Data and Code for: Leadership in Social Movements. The Forty-Eighters in the Civil War. Nashville, TN: American Economic Association [publisher], 2021. Ann Arbor, MI: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor], 2021-01-28. https://doi.org/10.3886/E120404V1

Project Description

Summary: This paper studies the role of leaders in the social movement against slavery that culminated in the U.S. Civil War. Our analysis is organized around a natural experiment: leaders of the failed German revolution of 1848--49 were expelled to the U.S. and became anti-slavery campaigners who helped mobilize Union Army volunteers. Towns where Forty-Eighters settled show two-thirds higher Union Army enlistments.
Their influence worked through local newspapers and social clubs. Going beyond enlistment decisions, Forty-Eighters reduced their companies' desertion rate during the war. In the long run, Forty-Eighter towns were more likely to form a local chapter of the NAACP.

Scope of Project

Subject Terms: Civil War enlistment; Turner Societies

JEL Classification:
N41 Economic History: Government, War, Law, International Relations, and Regulation: U.S.; Canada: Pre-1913

Geographic Coverage: United States

Time Period(s): 1848 – 1865

Collection Date(s): 2014 – 2019

Universe: located the town of residence of about two-thirds of Union Army soldiers

Data Type(s): administrative records data; census/enumeration data; geographic information system (GIS) data

Collection Notes: N/A

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