How To Use Whig party In A Sentence
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For a while, the meeting rooms hummed as the unofficial home of the Whig Party.
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In Jackson's second term the antislavery movement began in earnest; the Whig party was organized and named; the national debt was paid off, and the surplus distributed.
A School History of the United States
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The KansasNebraska Act and the Fugitive Slave Law were very unpopular in Massachusetts, even among many manufacturers who had theretofore supported the Whig Party.
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The second marquess of Rockingham was an important politician, leading the Whig party and supporting independence for the American colonies.
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President Tyler was a member of the Whig Party. But he made a Democrat -- John C. Calhoun -- his new secretary of state.
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After a reconciliation in the royal family and the reunification of the Whig party in 1720, the ministry recovered its poise, and the Whig Ascendancy was not only restored but extended.
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Politicians from the Upper South headed the Whig party and charted a moderate course.
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Another party, possessing the equally euphonical name of "Old Hunkers," are thus described: -- "Standing midway between this wing of the Democracy and the Whig party, is that portion who have taken upon themselves the comfortable title of 'Old Hunkers. '
Lands of the Slave and the Free Cuba, the United States, and Canada
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The dominant Whig Party appealed to Massachusetts, large Congregational church denomination, which had its roots in Puritanism.
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Offered second billing on the Whig Party ticket in 1848, Daniel Webster cracked, "I do not propose to be buried until I am dead.
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At the same time, the opposing Whig Party made use of "OK" to denigrate Van Buren's political mentor Andrew Jackson.
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It absorbed most of the dissenters from the dying Whig Party.
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The Whig party was crumbling fast.
The American Nation: A History of the United States to 1877
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The Whig party was crumbling fast.
The American Nation: A History of the United States to 1877
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The early 19th century, Democratic-Republican Party split, one group claiming to be the national Republican Party, later renamed the Whig party.
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The Whig party was crumbling fast.
The American Nation: A History of the United States to 1877
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With calls for Senator Clinton to abandon what is now seen as little more than a schismatic adventure that risks a fracture along a racial fault-line dividing the Democratic Party just as the Whig Party was fractured by race, some have deduced that the probable motive driving the sinking campaign deeper into the mire is a misplaced belief some attribute to James Carville that they can torpedo Obama's presidential ambitions; survive the disaster of his loss to McCain and prevail as owners of the Democratic Party through the agency of the now discredited Democratic Leadership Council.
Michael Carmichael: The Political Titanic