In the 1848 election, however, the Whigs nominated General Zachary Taylor, a war hero, and celebrated his victories.

A celebrated debate on this question took place in the House of Commons in January 1690 ; but the evident intention of the Whigs to perpetuate their own ascendancy by tampering with the franchise contributed largely to the Tory reaction which resulted in the defeat of the Whigs in the elections of that year.

By 1844, the Whigs began their recovery by nominating Henry Clay, who lost to Democrat James K. Polk in a closely contested race, with Polk's policy of western expansion ( particularly the annexation of Texas ) and free trade triumphing over Clay's protectionism and caution over the Texas question.

This was the last time Clay would be nominated for president, and many Whigs believed that, following Clay's defeat, Crittenden was the new leader of their party.

: In this article, inhabitants of the Thirteen Colonies of British America that supported the American Revolution are primarily referred to as " Americans ," with occasional references to " Patriots ", " Whigs ," " Rebels " or " Revolutionaries ".

Although these writings were considered too radical at the time for Britain's new rulers, they later came to be cited by Whigs, radicals and supporters of the American Revolution.

* 1965 – Greg Dulli, American musician ( The Twilight Singers, The Afghan Whigs, and The Gutter Twins )

This name was chosen to echo the American Whigs of 1776, who fought for independence, and because " Whig " was then a widely recognized label of choice for people who identified as opposing tyranny.

The American Whigs were modernizers who saw President Andrew Jackson as " a dangerous man on horseback " with a " reactionary opposition " to the forces of social, economic and moral modernization.

In the South during the latter part of the American Civil War and during the Reconstruction Era, many former Whigs tried to regroup in the South, calling themselves " Conservatives " and hoping to reconnect with the ex-Whigs in the North.

In today's discourse in American politics, the Whig Party is often cited as an example of a political party that lost its followers and its reason for being, as by the expression " going the way of the Whigs.

The North administration left power in March 1782 following the American Revolution, and a coalition of the Rockingham Whigs and the former Chathamites, now led by the Earl of Shelburne, took its place.

The conquest of a port in Spain's American empire was widely considered a foregone conclusion by many Patriot Whigs and opposition Tories who pressed a reluctant Walpole to launch larger naval expeditions to the Gulf of Mexico.

In contrast, historian Ben Rubin argues that because the American Revolution was a conflict that as often pitted neighbor against neighbor — Whigs ( advocates of Revolution ) against Tories ( loyalists to Britain )— as it pitted nascent Americans against the British, many people stayed neutral until goaded into taking a stand in reaction to military atrocities, such as those attributed to Tarleton, or individual atrocities, such as the death of Thomas Young's brother, or the burning of Thomas Sumter's house and the abuse of his wife, or the interrogation at knife point of William Bratton's wife, the beating of their young son, and the family's imprisonment in their own attic -- individual atrocities similar to those depicted in The Patriot.

During the 1850s Thompson and some of his fellow Whigs ( such as his friend Schuyler Colfax ) transferred allegiance to the American Party, better known as the Know Nothing Party.

With the Whigs, Pitt denounced the continuation of the American War of Independence, as his father strongly had.

Based on this single conjunction of interests and the fading memory of the happy co-operation of the early 1770s, the two men who had vilified one another throughout the American war together formed a coalition and forced their Government, with an overwhelming majority composed of North's Tories and Fox's opposition Whigs, on to the King.

He is known for coining the term " Sons of Liberty " in reference to American Whigs opposed to the British government's policies.

During the American War of Independence, he was a supporter of the American rebels, adding further to his popularity with American Whigs.

Lucius Junius Brutus is quite prominent in English literature, and he was quite popular among British and American Whigs.

Following the collapse of the Whig Party in the early 1850s, many former Whigs joined the Know Nothing, or American, Party, and Charles S. Morehead was elected governor from that party in 1855.

This tradition was prominent in the intellectual life of 16th-century Italy, as well as seventeenth-and 18th-century Britain and America ; indeed the term " virtue " appears frequently in the work of Niccolò Machiavelli, David Hume, the republicans of the English Civil War period, the 18th-century English Whigs, and the prominent figures among the Scottish Enlightenment and the American Founding Fathers.

He did not cite, but presumably was responding to, the appearance of his first competition, the Chicago's American ( sponsored by a rival political party, the Whigs ).

Before the 1850s, the second American two party system ( competition between the Democrats and the Whigs ) conformed to this pattern, largely because sectional ideologies and issues were kept out of politics to maintain cross-regional networks of political alliances.

Applied by their opponents to Parliamentary supporters of the younger William Pitt ( 1783 – 1801, 1804 – 1806 ), the term came to represent the political current opposed to the ' Old Whigs ' and the radicalism unleashed by the American and French Revolutions.

They remained the dominant political force in the state well into the 1820s, when the party finally disappeared, split between an allegiances to Andrew Jackson or to John Quincy Adams and the “ American system ” of Henry Clay and the Whigs.

Two new parties emerged from the remnants of the Jeffersonian Democracy, forming the Second Party System with the Whigs, brought to life in opposition to President Andrew Jackson and his new Democratic Party.

The Second Party System began when the Democratic-Republicans split into Jacksonian Democrats ( the predecessor of the modern Democratic Party ) and National Republicans ( later to become Whigs ).

1840 – 1856, Second Party System: Democrats and Whigs ; 3.

His destruction of the bank was a major political issue in the 1830s and shaped the Second Party System, as Democrats in the states opposed banks and Whigs supported them.

Anne supported the Occasional Conformity Bill of 1702, which was promoted by the Tories and opposed by the Whigs.

In general before 1860, Northern Democrats promoted easy land ownership and Whigs and Southern Democrats resisted.

The Tyler and Polk administrations ( 1841 – 48 ) successfully promoted this nationalistic doctrine over Whigs who wanted to concentrate on modernization and urbanization, and anti-slavery elements who tried to keep slavery out of the new territories so that white families could own and operate their own farms instead of having planters buy up the best lands and work them with gangs of slaves.

In particular, the Whigs supported the supremacy of Congress over the presidency and favored a program of modernization and economic protectionism.

The Whigs ' internal disunity and the nation's increasing prosperity made the party's activist economic program seem less necessary and led to a disastrous showing in the 1842 Congressional elections.

In the 1840 election, the term “ Locofoco ” was applied to the entire Democratic Party by its Whig opponents, both because Democratic President Martin Van Buren had incorporated many Locofoco ideas into his economic policy, and because Whigs considered the term to be derogatory.

The Panic of 1837 had created an economic depression and the perceived mishandling of this crisis by President Martin Van Buren, gave the Whigs the presidency ( William Henry Harrison was elected ) and a majority in the House.

The Whigs campaigned for neo-mercantilist reform based on modernization and economic nationalism, ideas which had previously been unpopular outside of urban regions, but gained footholds because of the depression.

Later on, the Whigs drew support from the emerging industrial interests and wealthy merchants, while the Tories drew support from the landed interests and the royal family.

The 1841 – 42 legislative session, with Whigs having a majority in the House chamber and the Democrats a smaller majority in the Senate, was marked by an impasse over the election of Tennessee's two United States senators.

The Whigs thought Andrew Johnson a dangerous prospect as a United States Senator, and made it a priority to prevent his election by the state legislature.

* November 4 – U. S. presidential election, 1856: Democrat James Buchanan defeats former President Millard Fillmore, representing a coalition of " Know-Nothings " and Whigs, and John C. Frémont of the fledgling Republican Party, to become the 15th President of the United States.

The Whigs were a party in the Parliament of England, Parliament of Great Britain, and Parliament of the United Kingdom, who contested power with the rival Tories from the 1680s to the 1850s.

Without Parliament, the Whigs gradually crumbled mainly due to the Rye House Plot, with The Earl of Melville, The Earl of Leven, Lord Shaftesbury and the Duke of Monmouth, Charles II's illegitimate son, both being implicated escaped to the United Provinces and Algernon Sidney, Sir Thomas Armstrong and William Russell, Lord Russell being executed for treason.

Later, the United States Whig Party was founded in 1833, focused on opposition to a strong presidency, just as the British Whigs had opposed a strong monarchy.

It is a historical irony that those from a group seen as rebels or " Whigs " back home in the Isles became Tories in the Americas while those from a group now considered one of the most " Tory " in regards to the United Kingdom became Whigs in the Americas.

Back in England, the Whigs are determined to overturn the Tory majority in the Parliament of the United Kingdom.

After the decline of the Whigs ' power, Wade joined the Republican Party, and in 1851 he was elected by his legislature to the United States Senate.

The Radicals were a parliamentary political grouping in the United Kingdom in the early to mid 19th century, who drew on earlier ideas of radicalism and helped to transform the Whigs into the Liberal Party.

In the United Kingdom, before World War I, a largely stable two-party system existed for generations ; traditionally, only the Tories and Whigs, or from the mid-19th century the Conservative and Liberal Parties, managed to deliver Members of Parliament in significant numbers.

Patriots ( also known as American Whigs, Revolutionaries, Congress-Men or Rebels ) were the colonists of the British Thirteen United Colonies who violently rebelled against British control during the American Revolution and in July 1776 declared the United States of America an independent nation.

In 1844, Yancey was elected to the United States House of Representatives to fill a vacancy ( winning with a 2, 197 to 2, 137 vote ) and re-elected in 1845 ( receiving over 4, 000 votes as the Whigs did not even field a candidate ).

* Patriot Whigs, in the United Kingdom ( 1725 )

During this era in Turtledove's Southern Victory Series world, the Confederate States of America, stretching from Sonora to Virginia, is led by Whigs ( with fascists gaining more and more power ) while the United States of America ( which has been occupying Canada ) is controlled by socialists.

* November 4, 1856: U. S. presidential election, 1856: Democrat James Buchanan defeated former President Millard Fillmore, representing a coalition of " Know-Nothings " and Whigs, and John C. Frémont of the fledgling Republican Party, to become the 15th President of the United States.