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  2. History of the United States Whig Party - Wikipedia

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    The Whig Party's first major action was to censure Jackson for the removal of the national bank deposits, thereby establishing opposition to Jackson's executive power as the organizing principle of the new party. [24] In doing so, the Whigs were able to shed the elitist image that had persistently hindered the National Republicans. [25]

  3. Whig Party (United States) - Wikipedia

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    Several ephemeral small parties in the United States, including the Florida Whig Party [209] and the "Modern Whig Party", [210] have adopted the Whig name. In Liberia, the True Whig Party was named in direct emulation of the American Whig Party. The True Whig Party was founded in 1869 and dominated politics in Liberia from 1878 until 1980. [211]

  4. History of the United States (1815–1849) - Wikipedia

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    The party then merged into the new Whig Party. Others included abolitionist parties, workers' parties like the Workingmen's Party, the Locofocos (who opposed monopolies), and assorted nativist parties who denounced the Roman Catholic Church as a threat to republicanism. None of these parties were capable of mounting a broad enough appeal to ...

  5. Political eras of the United States - Wikipedia

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    [14] [15] As a result, the Democratic-Republican Party split into a Jacksonian faction that was regionally and ideologically identical to the original party, which became the modern Democratic Party in the 1830s, and a Henry Clay faction that regionally and ideologically resembled the old Federalist Party, which was absorbed by Clay's Whig Party.

  6. William Henry Harrison 1840 presidential campaign - Wikipedia

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    Among other firsts, Harrison's victory was the first time the Whig Party won a presidential election. A month after taking office, Harrison died and his running mate John Tyler served the remainder of his term, but broke from the Whig agenda, and was expelled from the party. Harrison was born into wealth in 1773.

  7. The American Review: A Whig Journal - Wikipedia

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    The first issue of American Review was dated January 1845, though it was likely published as early as October 1844, and intended to promote the Whig candidate Henry Clay, running in the presidential election of 1844. Clay was opposed by James K. Polk, the Democratic Party’s candidate, who had the support of the Democratic Review. [1]

  8. 1854–55 United States House of Representatives elections

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    Both major parties, the Democratic Party and the Whig Party, lost critical voter support. The two parties had been organized as rivals for roughly 20 years. Northern voters strongly opposed to the Kansas–Nebraska Act shifted sharply against the Democrats. The Whigs also lost seats as the party disintegrated over the issue of slavery.

  9. Whig history - Wikipedia

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    According to Arthur Marwick, however, Henry Hallam was the first whig historian, publishing Constitutional History of England in 1827, which "greatly exaggerated the importance of 'parliaments' or of bodies [whig historians] thought were parliaments" while tending "to interpret all political struggles in terms of the parliamentary situation in ...