Whigs contested power with their rivals, the Tories. The Whigs merged into the Liberal Party with the Peelites and Radicals in the 1850s. Many Whigs left...

The Whig Party is a political party in England which is intended to be a revival of the Whigs that existed in the United Kingdom from 1678 to 1868. The...

Look up Whig in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Whig or Whigs may refer to: Whigs (British political party), one of two political parties in England,...

administration. The Whig Party became badly split between pro-Compromise Whigs like Fillmore and Webster and anti-Compromise Whigs like William Seward...

the Whigs and the Tories. These were not political parties in the modern sense but somewhat loose alliances of interests and individuals. The Whigs included...

a loosely organised political faction and later a political party, in the Parliaments of England, Scotland, Ireland, Great Britain and the United Kingdom...

This is a list of the Leaders of the British Whig Party. It begins in 1830 as, in the words of J C Sainty, 'it would be misleading to convey the impression...

– to be taken up later by opponents of the Whig Party itself, once it had come to dominate British politics following the Glorious Revolution. During the...

The True Whig Party (TWP), also known as the Liberian Whig Party (LWP), is the oldest political party in Liberia and one of the oldest parties in Africa...

The Rockingham Whigs (or Rockinghamites) in 18th-century British politics were a faction of the Whigs led by Charles Watson-Wentworth, 2nd Marquess of...

most notorious instance of this tactic, borrowing its title from a radical Whig tract of 1709 to argue that by the Whigs' own principles of. ." v t e...

The Whig Junto is the name given to a group of leading Whigs who were seen to direct the management of the Whig Party and often the government, during...

earlier proposal. The Whig Party became badly split between pro-Compromise Whigs like Fillmore and Webster and anti-Compromise Whigs like William Seward...

(1853–1857). This article covers the party in national politics. For state politics see Whig Party (United States). The Whigs emerged in the 1830s in opposition...

an organisation in Great Britain that was focused on advocating for parliamentary reform. It was founded by the Whig Party in 1792. The Society in England...

The Whig government of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland that began in November 1830 and ended in November 1834 consisted of two ministries:...

The Radical Whigs were a group of British political commentators associated with the British Whig faction who were at the forefront of the Radical movement...

slavery dominated the political landscape, and the Whigs, unable to agree on an approach to the issue, began to disintegrate. A few Whigs lingered, claiming...

Affairs of British North America and to The British North America Act, 1840 which established a new political entity, the Province of Canada. The Whig cabinet...

A two-party system is a political party system in which two major political parties consistently dominate the political landscape. At any point in time...

Whig Lord John Russell led the government of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland from 1846 to 1852. Following the split in the Tory Party...

The Patriot Whigs, later the Patriot Party, were a group within the Whig Party in Great Britain from 1725 to 1803. The group was formed in opposition...

American electoral politics have been dominated by successive pairs of major political parties since shortly after the founding of the republic of the...

appointed by the Prime Minister. The young Queen was so attached to her Whig ladies of the bedchamber that after Melbourne's resignation in 1839, she...

The Liberal Party was one of the two major political parties in the United Kingdom, along with the Conservative Party, in the 19th and early 20th centuries...

of the major feats of British political history. Explanations are usually offered in terms of his expert handling of the political system after 1720, [and]...

Whig and allied party leaders from 1801 to 1859. During the 19th century, the Whigs, Radicals and Peelites gradually evolved into the Liberal Party....

ISBN 978-0-19-820142-7. Volo, James M. (19 July 2012). "Tories and Whigs". The Boston Tea Party: The Foundations of Revolution: The Foundations of Revolution...

Clay helped form the Whig Party. The Democratic Party had a small yet decisive advantage over the Whigs until the 1850s when the Whigs fell apart over the...

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