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The Whigs were a political party in the Parliaments of England, Scotland, Ireland, Great Britain and the United Kingdom. Between the 1680s and the 1850s, the Whigs contested power with their rivals, the Tories .
The Whig Party was a political party that existed in the United States during the mid-19th century. Alongside the slightly larger Democratic Party, it was one of the two major parties in the United States between the late 1830s and the early 1850s as part of the Second Party System.
6 de nov. de 2009 · The Whig Party was a major political party in the U.S. from the 1830s to the 1850s, opposing Andrew Jackson and his Democrats. It supported the Second Bank of the U.S., higher tariffs, Congress and moral reform, but split over slavery and formed the Republican Party.
6 de jul. de 2024 · Whig and Tory, members of two opposing political parties or factions in England, particularly during the 18th century. Originally “Whig” and “Tory” were terms of abuse introduced in 1679 during the heated struggle over the bill to exclude James, duke of York (afterward James II), from the succession.
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28 de mai. de 2024 · Whig Party, in U.S. history, major political party active from 1834 to 1854 that espoused a program of national development but foundered on the rising tide of sectional antagonism. They borrowed the name Whig from the British party opposed to royal prerogatives.
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- The Whig Party was a major political party active in the period 1834–54 in the U.S. It was organized to bring together a loose coalition of groups...
- In 1836 the Whig Party ran three presidential candidates, Daniel Webster, Hugh L. White, and William Henry Harrison, to appeal to the East, South,...
- Whig presidential candidate Henry Clay lost the 1844 election because Clay misgauged the popularity of expansionism and opposed the annexation of T...
Whig (ou whigs) é uma expressão de origem popular que se tornou termo corrente para designar o partido liberal no Reino Unido. Esta corrente liberal contribuiu para a formação do atual Partido Liberal Democrata — Liberal Democrats .
25 de jun. de 2024 · The Whig Party was first and foremost a political party of reform and opposition. Its history is one of long and complex British political traditions and machinations of Parliament which continue to play out to this day.
