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Bookmark or Share- Whig Party (United States) - WikipediaWhigs linked moral progress and material progress—each needed the other. They supported Protestant religiosity and missions while being fearful of Catholics. Whigs believed that a higher stage of morality would be achieved when America brought wealth and opportunity to everyone.
- A History of the Whig Party: Who Were the Whigs? - TheCollectorMany Northern Whigs joined the newly-formed Republican Party—founded in Ripon, Wisconsin in 1854—after the Kansas-Nebraska Act. This new party was vocally opposed to the expansion of slavery and quickly became the de facto primary opponent of the Democratic Party.
- Whig and Tory | Definition, Difference, History, & Facts ...For nearly 50 years thereafter, rule was by aristocratic groups and connections, regarding themselves as Whigs by sentiment and tradition. The die-hard Tories were discredited as Jacobites , seeking the restoration of the Stuart heirs to the throne, though about 100 country gentlemen, regarding themselves as Tories, remained members of the ...
- Whig Party ‑ Definition, Beliefs & Leaders - HISTORYThe Whig Party was formed in 1834 by opponents to Jacksonian Democracy. Guided by their most prominent leader, Henry Clay, they called themselves Whigs—the name of the English antimonarchist...
- Whigs (British political party) - WikipediaThe 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 became the Liberal Party when the faction merged with the Peelites and Radicals in the 1850s.
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