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  2. 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]

  3. Constitutional Union Party (United States) - Wikipedia

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    The Whig Party collapsed in the 1850s due to a series of crises over slavery. Many former Whigs joined the new, anti-slavery Republican Party, but others joined the nativist American Party . The American Party declined after the 1856 elections , and for the 1860 elections John J. Crittenden and other former Whigs formed the Constitutional Union ...

  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. History of the United States Whig Party - Wikipedia

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    The history of the United States Whig Party lasted from the establishment of the Whig Party early in President Andrew Jackson's second term (1833–1837) to the collapse of the party during the term of President Franklin Pierce (1853–1857). This article covers the party in national politics. For state politics see Whig Party (United States).

  6. Whiggism - Wikipedia

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    The true origins of what became known as Whiggism lie in the Wars of the Three Kingdoms and the power struggle between the Parliament of England and King Charles I, which eventually turned into the English Civil Wars, but only after the example of the successful use of violent opposition to the king set by the Bishops' Wars, which were fought between the same king in his capacity as king of ...

  7. History of the United States (1849–1865) - Wikipedia

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    The election of 1848 produced a new president from the Whig Party, Zachary Taylor. James K. Polk did not seek reelection because he achieved all his objectives in his first term and because his health was declining. From the election emerged the Free Soil Party, a group of anti-slavery

  8. Joshua Reed Giddings - Wikipedia

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    He was at first a member of the Whig Party and was later a Republican, helping found the party. Giddings is noted as a leading abolitionist of his era. He was censured in 1842 for violating the gag rule against discussing slavery in the House of Representatives when he proposed a number of Resolutions against federal support for the coastwise ...

  9. 1848 United States presidential election - Wikipedia

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    Members of the Whig Party who opposed slavery, New York Barnburners, and members of the Liberty Party met in August 1848 in Buffalo, New York, to found a new political party. The Barnburners made a call for the formation of an anti-slavery party at their conclave in June, and by the People's Convention of Friends of Free Territory, which was ...