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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 Whigs merged into the Liberal Party with the Peelites and Radicals in the 1850s.
26 de abr. 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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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.
19 de abr. 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 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.
8 de jan. de 2021 · The Whig party was a diverse coalition of anti-Jacksonian forces that dominated U.S. politics in the mid-19th century. But it fell apart over slavery, losing its leaders, its candidates and its voters to the Know Nothings and the Republicans.
27 de jun. de 2018 · The Whig party was a coalition of politicians opposed to Andrew Jackson and Jacksonian Democracy in the 1830s and 1840s. It favored high tariffs, federally funded internal improvements, a national banking system, and a strong Union, but collapsed over slavery and secession issues.
