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Whigs and thought
In the new Parliament, many Whigs thought the aging Prime Minister incapable of leading the military campaign.
Of course Macaulay thought that the Whigs of the seventeenth century were correct in their fundamental ideas, but the hero of the History was William, who, as Macaulay says, was certainly no Whig ... If this was Whiggism it was so only, by the mid-nineteenth century, in the most extended and inclusive sense, requiring only an acceptance of parliamentary government and a sense of gravity of precedent.
When France announced that King Louis XVI was to put on trial, Pitt recalled Parliament by calling out the militia, an action Fitzwilliam thought unwarranted and designed to curry favour with conservative Whigs.

Whigs and Andrew
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 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.
Its name was a compromise between Whigs, who wanted to name the new county for Henry Clay, and Democrats, who wanted to name it for Andrew Jackson.
By 1834 the Whigs emerged as the opposition to Andrew Jackson, led by Henry Clay of Kentucky.
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.
A supporter of Andrew Jackson from the 1820s, he separated with him in the mid-1830s, became a leader of the Whig party and helped carry the Whigs to victory in the 1840 Presidential election.
He controlled the Whig Party totally, giving the New York Whigs a degree of discipline that was then the hallmark of the Democrats under leaders like Andrew Jackson, while remaining a popular and likeable fellow.
The Whigs Andrew Williamson, Andrew Pickens, and James Williams, who had been battling Loyalists in the Upcountry, launched a successful campaign against the Cherokee.
The Whigs were the party in opposition to U. S. President Andrew Jackson, his political successors and their policies.
The Whigs were able to gain a number of seats due to the unpopularity in some regions of Andrew Jackson's brash style.

Whigs and Johnson
In his first term in the state house, Johnson did not ally with either the Democrats or the Whigs consistently, though he revered Jackson, the Democratic President.
The campaign was sure to be a struggle ; the Whigs nominated their " Eagle Orator " Gustavus Henry, and Johnson wasted no time in calling him to task for his " Henry-mandering " of the First District, as their debates made their way across the state from one county seat to the next.
Chapin ( 1990 ) argues that Samuel Johnson ( 1709 – 84 ), a leading London intellectual, repeatedly denigrated the Whigs and praised the Tories.
After he escaped to Canada in May 1776 at the outbreak of the American Revolutionary War, Lady Johnson was detained that year by the Whigs of New York as a hostage for the good conduct of her husband.

Whigs and prospect
The prospect of another Regency was not attractive to Perceval, as the Prince of Wales was known to favour Whigs and disliked Perceval for the part he had played in the " delicate investigation ".
Colonial Whigs were alarmed at the prospect of Americans being sent to England for trial.

Whigs and United
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 celebrated Clay's vision of the " American System " that promoted rapid economic and industrial growth in the United States.
* 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.

Whigs and States
For most of the Confederate States history, the conservative Whigs were the dominant political party, with the liberal-egalitarian Radical Liberals attracting support from the more ethnically diverse outer states ( Sonora, Chihuahua, Cuba, and Louisiana ).

Whigs and Senator
In the House, antislavery Whigs led by John Quincy Adams voted against the war ; among Democrats, Senator John C. Calhoun was the most notable opponent of the declaration.
This provision was inserted by Democratic Virginia Senator James M. Mason to coerce border-state Whigs, who faced the greatest danger of losing slaves as fugitives but who were lukewarm on general sectional issues related to the South into supporting Texas's land claims.
Calhoun sided with the Whigs until he broke with key Whig Senator Daniel Webster over slavery, as well as the Whigs ' program of " internal improvements ".
William Seward was elected as U. S. Senator from New York as a Whig in 1849, and emerged as the leader of the anti-slavery " Conscience Whigs ".
A fourth candidate, Senator John Bell of Tennessee, was fielded by the Constitutional Union Party, mostly former Whigs and Know Nothings from the Upper South who favored the status quo.
The incumbent, James C. Jones, a popular Whig, was not seeking reelection, and the Whigs instead nominated Senator Ephraim H. Foster.

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