In 1834 appeared the first volume of the "History of the United States", which would appear over the next four decades (1834–1874) and established his reputation. In 1835, he moved to Springfield, Massachusetts, where he completed the second volume of his history. The year of his move, he also drafted an address to the people of Massachusetts at the request of the Young Men's Democratic Convention. "Although influenced by transcendalism, Bancroft and Brownson rejected individualism and moral reform and turned to mass democracy as a means of sweeping away the vestiges of traditional authority because they believed that the common man in his natural, untutored state was a direct recipient of the divine message."