Ethnic factors played an important part in the early republican politics of the United States.Influenced by British political tradition and colonial practice,the British Americans took cultural assimilation as the forerunner of political assimilation and tried to transform the ethnic factors of other European immigrants through cultural education and other means.On the contrary,the German Americans wanted to share political power equally with the British Americans while maintaining their ethnic traits,which eventually led to the Fries's Rebellion.As the British Americans became aware of the inherent conflict between ethnic factors and the construction of citizenship,the ethnic prejudice held by the British Americans against the German Americans changed.In part,the Fries's Rebellion pushed the American society to construct citizenship based on recognition of ethnic diversity,leading to the emergence of"hyphenated citizenship"among other European immigrants in the mid-19th century.However,cultural assimilation and political assimilation have always served the realistic political needs,and ethnic factors have never really faded from the process of citizenship construction in the United States.
Fries's RebellionGerman AmericansEthnicityConstruction of citizenshipRepublican politics
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