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The Liberty Party experienced rapid growth in the years following the 1840 United States elections, particularly in New England and areas of Yankee settlement. Events in Washington helped drive support for antislavery politics. In April 1841, Harrison died and was succeeded by Vice President Tyler, who became the 10th president of the United ...
The Mugwumps were Republican political activists in the United States who were intensely opposed to political corruption. They were never formally organized. They were never formally organized. They famously switched parties from the Republican Party by supporting Democratic candidate Grover Cleveland in the 1884 United States presidential ...
Blue and buff – Whig Party (United States) Gold with dark gray, sometimes with dark blue or purple – Libertarian Party Green – Green Party Orange – American Solidarity Party (Christian democracy) Purple – politically mixed or moderate regions; Constitution Party, Veterans Party of America Red – Republican Party
Their meaning then was that the faction and later the entire Democratic party, was the "focus of folly". [13] The use of Locofoco as a derogatory name for the Democratic party continued well into the 1850s, even following the dissolution of the Whig Party and the formation of the Republican Party by former urban Workingmen Locofocos, anti ...
sign at a 2010 Tea Party movement protest in Minnesota. In US politics, "Republican in name only" is a pejorative used to describe politicians of the Republican Party deemed insufficiently loyal to the party, or misaligned with the party's ideology. Similar terms have been used since the early 1900s.
A Respectable Minority: The Democratic Party in the Civil War Era, 1860–1868 (1977) online edition Archived 2012-05-25 at the Wayback Machine. Stampp, Kenneth M. Indiana Politics during the Civil War (1949) online edition Archived 2012-05-25 at the Wayback Machine. Smith, Adam. No Party Now: Politics in the Civil War North (2006), excerpt and ...
The American Party, known as the Native American Party before 1855 [a] and colloquially referred to as the Know Nothings, or the Know Nothing Party, was an Old Stock nativist political movement in the United States in the 1850s. Members of the movement were required to say "I know nothing" whenever they were asked about its specifics by ...
Bloody Monday was sparked by the Know Nothing political party (officially known as the American Party), fed in large part by the radical, inflammatory anti-immigrant writings, especially those of the editor of the Louisville Journal, George D. Prentice. [1] Irish and Germans were recent arrivals and now comprised a third of the city's ...