Origins of the word: probably shortened from whiggamore, one of a group of 17th-century Scottish rebels who joined in an attack on Edinburgh known as the whiggamore raid; probably from Scottish whig - to drive. 1. A member of the liberal party in Great Britain. (Historical Terms) a member of the American political party that opposed the Democrats from about 1834 to 1855 and represented propertied and professional interests 2. (Government, Politics & Diplomacy) a conservative member of the Liberal Party in Great Britain 3.
Taxation without representation was the main reason for their rebellion. The thirteen colonies established a body of government to form individual self-governing states. The British sent over troops to regain direct rule. The colonies fought back which caused the American Revolutionary War, also known as the American War of Independence. The American Revolution was the result of a series of social, political and intellectual unrest.
Issue 7: Was the Constitution of the United States Written to Protect the Economic Interests of the Upper Classes? According to radical historian Howard Zinn, the Founding Fathers were an elite group of northern money interests and southern slaveholders who used Shay’s Rebellion in Massachusetts as a pretext to create a strong central government, which protected the property rights of the rich to the exclusion of slaves, Indians, and non-property-holding whites. Zinn uses an excerpt from historian George Bancroft to explain his reasoning. Bancroft basically said that the Constitution left out individuals and favored certain classes. Zinn also uses an excerpt from historian Charles Beard to explain his reasoning.
In 1846, Lincoln ran for the House of Representatives and won; While in Washington, he was known for his different view to the U.S. Mexican War. He opposed this war because he saw it as a way to extend slavery. The War started when Mexico said no to the Republic of Texas becoming a state. This was the first foreign war for the states and soldiers from every state served in, including Robert Lee, Thomas Jackson, and others. These men later were an important role in the Civil War.
Although Zinn argues that the conflicts caused by the differentiating social classes in order to dissolve the class divisions was the main cause of the American Revolution, the “other side of the story” is told by Schweikart and Allen, as they reason that it was actually the British who unknowingly burdened the colonies with oppression, which brought about the revolution itself. In Zinn’s fourth chapter of A People’s History of the United States, Tyranny is Tranny; he focuses more on the class differences in society that triggers the opposition against England, rather than the effects of British oppression. He states that the “American leadership was less in need of English rule, and the English more in need of the colonists’ wealth” (Zinn 60). With this said, the colonists then focused more on the pursuit of exploitation and profit, which would definitely spark rebellions of the poor against the rich especially because the poor had been overwhelmed by British taxes and the fact that only a small percentage of the wealthy controlled a huge majority of the city’s taxable assets. For this reason, the poor developed a hatred for the upper class that would
Ever active in politics, Lincoln served one term in Congress during the presidency of James K. Polk. He criticized the Mexican War and endorsed a resolution demanding that slavery be excluded from any territory gained as a result of the conflict. Despite his support of measures to supply troops, Lincoln's anti-war position stirred considerable opposition at home. During his campaign in 1858, Lincoln engaged in a series of debates with the Democratic candidate Stephen A. Douglas. He did not win election to the Senate but the Lincoln-Douglas debates spread his fame and publicized
Rutherford B. Hayes Essays Life in Brief Life Before the Presidency Campaigns and Elections Domestic Affairs Foreign Affairs Life After the Presidency Family Life The American Franchise Impact and Legacy Rutherford B. Hayes Facts at a Glance Term: 19th President of the United States (1877 – 1881) Born: October 4, 1822, Delaware, Ohio Political Party: Republican Died: January 17, 1893 MORE FACTS » From the Image Gallery... President Rutherford Hayes (The Library of Congress) President Rutherford Hayes won the disputed election of 1876 and took office hoping to heal the nation's wounds after the Civil War. He also worked to end corruption in the civil service, promoting competitive exams for civil service workers, and to strengthen
Page 579 Clinton, Bill 1946- THE 1992 PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION CLINTON’S FIRST TERM CLINTON’S FOREIGN POLICY SCANDALS, CONTROVERSIES, AND IMPEACHMENT PUBLIC PERCEPTION OF CLINTON DURING HIS PRESIDENCY POSTPRESIDENCY ACTIVITIES BIBLIOGRAPHY Bill Clinton was the forty-second president of the United States, serving from 1993 to 2001. He was born William Jefferson Blythe III on August 19, 1946, in Hope, Arkansas. His father, William Jefferson Blythe Jr. (1918-1946), was a salesman who died in an auto accident before Clinton was born. When Bill Clinton was fourteen, he legally adopted the surname of his stepfather, Roger C. Clinton Sr. (1908-1967). While attending Georgetown University, Clinton interned with Senator J. William Fulbright
The couple had four sons together, two of whom would die tragically while still children. Then, in 1846, Lincoln was elected to U.S. Congress, and moved to Washington to serve out his term, where he spoke out against the Mexican War and unsuccessfully attempted to abolish slavery in the District of Columbia. In 1849, Lincoln returned to Springfield to resume his career as a lawyer and devote more time to his family. His political life seemed to be over. But when the slavery question heated up in the middle 1850s, Lincoln took to the stump again, running unsuccessfully for Senate in 1854 and 1858.
In their drive for power the ministers upset the balance of the British constitution. Royal officials in the colonies of America aided in this English conspiracy as they attempted to seize as much power as they could. Bailyn argued that the American Revolution was actually a radical "ideological" revolution that took place in men's minds. Before the Revolution, colonials saw the divergences from the European norms--lack of a titled aristocracy, an