Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
Representative Thomas "Tip" O'Neill was Speaker of the House (1977–1987) and was the highest ranking Democrat in Washington, D.C. during most of Reagan's term. Democrats who supported many conservative policies were instrumental in the election of Republican President Ronald Reagan in 1980.
War Democrats - "Democrats who joined with the Union Party to put down the Rebellion" [14] (Example: Andrew Johnson) Southern Unionist - not necessarily a political label, per se, but something like a mirror of the Copperhead: a southerner who supported the U.S. government during war.
The Democrats, often led by Irish Catholics, ... and associations during the Gilded Age. American Art Association [167] American Watercolor Society [168] Ashcan School;
During the Gilded Age, or from around 1877 to 1896, the only Democratic president to win both the Electoral College and popular vote was the Bourbon Democrat Grover Cleveland (1885–1889 and 1893–1897).
The New Democrat Network supports socially liberal and fiscally moderate Democratic politicians and is associated with the congressional New Democrat Coalition in the House. [352] Annie Kuster is the chair of the coalition, [ 350 ] and former senator and President Barack Obama was self-described as a New Democrat.
The new Democratic Party became a coalition of poor farmers, city-dwelling laborers and Irish Catholics. [39] The new party was pulled together by Martin Van Buren in 1828 as Jackson crusaded on claims of corruption by President John Quincy Adams. The new party (which did not get the name Democrats until 1834) swept to a landslide.
Estes, Todd. "Beyond Whigs and Democrats: historians, historiography, and the paths toward a new synthesis for the Jacksonian era." American Nineteenth Century History 21.3 (2020): 255–281. Lynn, Joshua A., and Harry L. Watson. "Introduction: Race, Politics, and Culture in the Age of Jacksonian 'Democracy'."
The Progressive Era (1890s-1920s [1] [2]) was a period in the United States during the early 20th century of widespread social activism and political reform across the country. [ 3 ] [ 4 ] Progressives sought to address the problems caused by rapid industrialization, urbanization, immigration, and political corruption as well as the enormous ...