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| | Whig Party (United States) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
 | | In its early form, the Whig Party was united only by opposition to the policies of President Andrew Jackson, especially his removal of the deposits from the Bank of the United States without the consent of Congress. | | | The Whig Party was formed in the winter of 1833-1834 by former Jeffersonian Republicans and National Republicans such as Henry Clay and John Quincy Adams, and by Southern States' Rights supporters such as W. | | | Deep fissures in the party on this question led the party to run Scott over its own incumbent President Fillmore in the U.S. presidential election of 1852. |
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| | John Tyler - Simple English Wikipedia |
| | John Tyler was the 10th president of the United States of America, from 1841 to 1845. | | | But the United States Constitution says that the vice president takes over if the president dies, and Tyler said that meant he was the new president. | | | Tyler became a state representative in the United States Congress, and then also became governor of Virginia like his father. |
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| | Whig party on Encyclopedia.com |
| | This move temporarily prevented a division of the party, and although Taylor died while Clay was formulating the Compromise of 1850 in Congress, Millard Fillmore, his Vice President and presidential successor, kept the faith of the Whig party. | | | WHIG PARTY [Whig party] one of the two major political parties of the United States in the second quarter of the 19th cent. | | | This coalition, which later called itself the National Republican party, increased in strength after the election of Jackson in 1828 and was joined in opposition to the President by other smaller parties, the most notable being the Anti-Masonic party. |
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| | Reader's Companion to American History - -WHIG PARTY |
| | The Whig party was founded by individuals united only in their antagonism to Jackson's war on the Second Bank of the United States and his high-handed measures in waging that war and ignoring Supreme Court decisions, the Constitution, and Indian rights embodied in federal treaties. | | | In Congress, Whigs supported the Second Bank of the United States, a high tariff, distribution of land revenues to the states, relief legislation to mitigate the effects of the great depression that followed the financial panics of 1837 and 1839, and federal reapportionment of House seats (a "reform" likely to enlarge Whig representation in Congress). | | | Detailed studies of the Whig party in the states and biographies of such Whig leaders as Clay, William Seward, Daniel Webster, and Horace Greeley reveal dissimilar policies from one state to another and important differences in the character, beliefs, and actions of the leaders. |
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| | BIGpedia - Democratic Party (United States) - Encyclopedia and Dictionary Online |
| | In the early 20th century, the traditional symbol of the Democratic Party in Midwestern states such as Indiana, Kentucky and Ohio was the rooster, as opposed to the Republican eagle. | | | In the 1850s, following the disintegration of the Whig Party, the Southern wing of the Democratic Party became increasingly associated with the expansion of slavery, in opposition to the newly revamped United States Republican Party. | | | The Presidency of Andrew Jackson, however, destroyed the unity of the Party, with the Jacksonians forming the Democratic-Republican faction, opposed by the National Republicans, led by John Quincy Adams. |
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| | Winfield Scott Papers |
| | The Whig party nomiated Scott for the presidency, but he was decisively defeated by Pierce in the 1852 election. | | | Correspondence of Winfield Scott, general in chief of the United States Army. | | | Winfield Scott saw active duty in the United States Army for half a century, serving under every president from Jefferson to Lincoln. |
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| | Lalor, Cyclopaedia of Political Science, V.1, Entry 232, CLAY: Library of Economics and Liberty |
| | He was secretary of state 1825-9, and was again senator from Kentucky 1836-42, and from 1849 until his death. | | | The story, generally believed, that John Tyler, while a delegate to the whig national convention of 1839, could not restrain his tears at the failure to nominate Clay, may serve to show the intensity of the party's feelings toward its leader. | | | He was admitted to the bar in 1799, was a senator from Kentucky 1806-7 and 1809-11, and was a representative almost continuously 1811-25, being chosen speaker of the house six times. |
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| | United States Electoral Process - Liberty - Themepark |
| | The Whig party developed in the 1830s in opposition to President Andrew Jackson and his policies. | | | Each state has as many votes in the electoral college as it has senators and members of the House of Representatives. | | | Opponents to President Jackson developed the Whig party which opposed the ideas of a pwerful presidency. |
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| | Barnes & Noble.com - The Rise and Fall of the American Whig Party: Jacksonian Politics and the Onset of ... |
| | And the party's death in the mid-1850s was both effect and cause of the political breakdown that led to secession and the Civil War. | | | Because state and local elections were of comprehensive importance to national politicians in the 19th century, Holt delves in minutest detail into electoral developments in states and localities. | | | In all, four Whigs sat in the White House--Harrison, Tyler, Taylor, and Fillmore--while leaders such as Henry Clay and Daniel Webster failed to capture that prize, contending with Democrats over tariffs, banks, internal improvements, territorial expansion, and, ultimately, slavery until the party's demise in the 1850s. |
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| | Whig Party -- Britannica Concise Encyclopedia - The online encyclopedia you can trust! |
| | Harrison died within a month of his inauguration, however, and his successor, John Tyler, proceeded to veto major Whig legislation—including re-creation of the Bank of the United States. | | | His war against the Second Bank of the United States and his opposition to nullification in South Carolina, however, allowed Henry Clay to bring fiscal conservatives and southern states' rights proponents together in a coalition with those who still believed in the National Republican program of a protective tariff and federally financed internal improvements. | | | In 1832 he was elected to Congress, where he joined the Whig party in opposition to Andrew Jackson. |
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| | Resolved, That the proviso of Jefferson, to prohibit the existence of slavery after 1800 in all the territories of the United States, southern and northern. | | | The currency, from a state of extraordinary derangement, was brought into singular purity. | | | This was a new era, he said, in the long history of political parties in this State. |
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| | WHIPPING OR FLOGGING - LoveToKnow Article on WHIPPING OR FLOGGING |
| | The parties not in office have whips who are unpaid. | | | The chief whip of the government holds the office of patronage secretary to the treasury, go called because when offices were freely distributed to secure the support of members, it was his chief duty to dispose of the patronage to the best advantage of his party. | | | In the North, where the inhumane Fugitive Slave Law grew daily more odious, the adherence to the Compromise on which Clay and Webster insisted weakened the party fatally. |
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| | Getting the Message Out! The Second American Party System: The Whig Party |
| | Their chief spokesman in Congress, Senator John C. Calhoun, who was Jackson's Vice President during his first term, would help form the Whig party in the winter of 1833-34, but he and most South Carolina Nullifiers would rejoin the Democratic party in 1837. | | | By Michael F. Holt, Ph.D. The Whig party would combine National Republicans and Antimasons as well as two different groups of southern anti-Jackson men who had refused to support Clay in 1832 because they considered National Republicans' nationalistic economic program an unconstitutional violation of states' rights. | | | These were one-time Democrats who considered South Carolina's attempts to nullify a federal statute nonsensical but who also bridled at the strong nationalistic stance Jackson took in his December 1832 proclamation against nullification and his call on Congress for a "Force Bill" to suppress it. |
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| | Lincoln/Net: Economic Development and Labor Sources |
| | The Whig Party emerged as the major challenger to the followers of Jackson, who became the Democratic Party. | | | Illinois counted among the states pledging their support to General Andrew Jackson in his two tempestuous presidential terms (1829-1837). | | | The Old Hero decisively turned the powers of the federal government to securing the Union (facing down South Carolina's attempts to nullify federal laws not to its liking), disbanding the controversial Bank of the United States and dispossing Native Americans of their lands. |
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| | Stanly - TheBestLinks.com - North Carolina, USA, United States Whig Party, United States Federalist Party, ... |
| | Edward Stanly Representative, United States Whig Party, North Carolina in the Twenty-sixth United States Congress | | | John Stanly Representative, United States Federalist Party, North Carolina in the Seventh United States Congress (and after whom the county below was named.) | | | Stanly, North Carolina, USA, United States Whig Party, United States Federalist... |
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| | Political Debate |
| | The Whig party (1834-56) of the United States was formed to oppose Andrew JACKSON and the DEMOCRATIC party. | | | The origins of the modern Democratic Party emerged in the presidency of Andrew Jackson (1829-37). | | | But early regional factionalism, stemming from the tariff, states’ rights, national expansion, and slavery issues, in time split the party and eventually led to the Civil War. |
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| | The Whig Party |
| | The Democratic Party, with Jackson himself as the rallying point, brought about radical changes, including a presidency that for the first time threatened to overshadow Congress. | | | In the 1850s when the nation became increasingly divided over slavery, a new Republican party formed, primarily to keep slavery quarantined off in the South, while Southern sentiment was for their right to move, with their way of life, into any new territory. | | | After the Jackson era, the Whig party drifted towards its strongest elements, the national improvements men. |
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| | The Whig Party |
| | Established in 1834, the Whig Party was a reaction to the authoritarian policies of Andrew Jackson. | | | The Election of 1856: The Whigs made a nominal appearance with Millard Fillmore of the National American Party (garnering feeble Whig support), losing badly to Republican John C. Frémont and the victor Democrat James Buchanan. | | | Following Scott’s poor showing in 1852, the southerners moved to the Democratic Party and the northerners to the newly formed Republican Party. |
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| | Find in a Library: The Whig Party in the South. |
| | United States -- Politics and government -- 1815-1861. | | | Find in a Library: The Whig Party in the South. | | | To find this item in a library, enter a postal code, state, province, or country in the field above. |
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| | TONA Research Committee - Private Publications |
| | The Whig Party, was one of the 2 major political parties in the United States during the second quarter of the 19th century, formed to oppose president Andrew JACKSON and the DEMOCRATIC PARTY. | | | Images from the Whig Party Almanac - 1845 | | | Front Cover - Whig Party Almanac - 1845 |
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| | James K. Polk Is Elected 11th President of the United States |
| | The Whig opposition party played on his obscurity, sniping, "Who is James K. Polk?" An experienced speaker, Polk surprised everyone when he campaigned vigorously and won the presidency on November 5, 1844. | | | James K. Polk Is Elected 11th President of the United States | | | He was called a "dark horse" candidate because he was not expected to beat his opponent, Henry Clay of the Whig Party, to become the 11th president of the United States. |
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| | MSN Encarta - Search Results - Whig Party (United States) |
| | Taylor, Zachary (1784-1850), 12th president of the United States (1849-1850). | | | Political Parties in the United States : Whig Party | | | Crockett, Davy, destruction of party, election of 1836, election of 1840, election of 1844, election of 1848, founding, history of the Whig Party,... |
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| | Republican Party, (Political Parties) |
| | From then until World War II, the Republican won the presidency consistently, losing only to Grover Cleveland in 1884 and 1892. | | | In 1952 and again in 1956, the Republicans nominated and won with Dwight D. Eisenhower. | | | The Republican Party was formed in 1854 and ran John C. Fremont as its first candidate for President of the United States in 1856. |
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| | Historic Documents - Major American Political Party Platforms |
| | For his devotion to the constitution in its true spirit, and his inflexibility in executing the laws but, beyond all these attributes, of being representative of neither of the two sectional parties now struggling for political supremacy. | | | Resolved, That in the present exigency of political affairs, we are not called upon to discuss subordinate questions of administration in exercising the Constitutional powers of government. | | | They have no new principle to announce, no new platform to establish, but are content broadly to rest where their fathers have rested upon the Constitution of the United States, wishing no safer guide, no higher law. |
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| | MSN Encarta - Search Results - Tyler John |
| | The Whig party nominated three unsuccessful candidates for president in the election of 1836. | | | Tyler, John (1790-1862), tenth vice-president (1841) and tenth president of the United States (1841-1845); he was the first vice-president to... | | | Seeking victory at almost any price, the Whig party in 1840 passed over Henry Clay, its true leader, choosing the ageing general instead. |
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| | WhigsTories |
| | Later in the 17th century the Whig party of England emerged in opposition to King Charles II and to the accession of the Roman Catholic duke of York as James II. | | | A Whig may also be a member of the Whig party of the United States. | | | Tory, member of a former British political party, traditionally in opposition to the Whig party. |
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| | United States Democratic Party - SourceWatch |
| | From 1856 onward its main opposition has come from the Republican Party. | | | From 1833 to 1856, it was opposed chiefly by the Whig Party. | | | The Democratic Party is one of the two major United States political parties. |
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| | Political Party Platforms |
| | Second: The State Governments should be held secure in their reserved rights, and the General Government sustained on its constitutional powers, and that the Union should be revered and watched over as the palladium of our liberties. | | | Seventh: The Federal and State Governments are parts of one system, alike necessary for the common prosperity, peace and security, and ought to be regarded alike with a eordial, habitual and immovable attachment. | | | Respect for the authority of each and acquiescence in the just constitutional measures of each, are duties required by the plainest considerations of national, state, and individual welfare. |
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| | Whig |
| | [n] a member of the Whig Party in the United States in pre-Civil-War times. |
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| | True Whig - TheBestLinks.com - Liberia, United States Whig Party, TheBestLinks.com:Find or fix a stub, 1980, ... |
| | Initially, its ideology was heavily influenced by that of the United States Whig Party. | | | True Whig, Liberia, United States Whig Party, TheBestLinks.com:Find or fix a... | | | True Whig - TheBestLinks.com - Liberia, United States Whig Party, TheBestLinks.com:Find or fix a stub, 1980,... |
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| | Whig (disambiguation) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | True Whig Party, also known as the "Liberian Whig Party", Liberia's only legal political party from 1878 to 1980 | | | Confederate States Whig Party, a fictional political party in Harry Turteldove's alternate history book series | | | Radicals (UK), who helped to tranform the British Whig Party into the modern British Liberal Party |
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| | Liberty Party |
| | Due to the Liberty Party's poor showing in both the elections of 1840 and 1844, the organization collapsed. Many former party members joined the Free-Soil Party, which ran its first candidate for the presidency in 1848. | | | Ohio Historical Society, 2005, "Liberty Party", Ohio History Central: An Online Encyclopedia of Ohio History. |
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| | Ohio Historical Society, 2005, "Whig Party", Ohio History Central: An Online Encyclopedia of Ohio History. |
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