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The civil war was one of the most intense and destructive wars the U.S have ever experienced, the war left over 640,000 soldiers dead, 476,000 wounded and 400,000 missing, this resulting in about 2% of the population dead. Whilst the war brought violence and destruction it also resolved two important questions that were unable to be resolved by the revolution these include; weather the United States was going to be made up of many independent states or a united nation with an independent…

real life. Swift was also into politics and had a disdain against the Whigs which is clearly depicted in Gulliver’s travels. Jonathan Swift was born in a very poor family - his mother - Abigail and sister- Jane. His father was a well-known clergyman in England but had died seven months before Jonathan was born. “The mass of apocryphal…

and the Whigs. The Democratic Party based themselves off of President Jackson’s ideals, they aimed to reduce the amount of power the government had. The Democrats were also in favor of people who are “honest workers”, “Simple farmers”, and “forthright business men”. The Democrats disliked the monopolistic, aristocratic, and those well established with wealth. In contrast, the Whigs expressed their support for expanding the government’s power and improving industrial production. The Whigs and…

coastline in 325 BCE. Great Britain was a very strong country, but like everyone else they had problems and events that helped structure the count. One event was the strife between Whigs and Tories it lasted from 1707-1721. Great Britain was under the rule of Queen Anne. The Tories supported the monarchy and church. The Whigs supported parliament instead of the monarchy. At this time Great Britain was at war with France. It was a religious and political struggle for parliament and the crown.…

The Whigs, like the Progressives, succeeded in reforming banks, businesses, and corporations, while also supporting humanitarian reform and morality in politics. Whigs were opposed to harsh labor conditions, just as the Progressives had many reform movements to make industrial conditions less severe. Within the Whig party, there were contrasting views, such as some being anti-Catholic, some being against labor…

called the Whigs was formed to support the supremacy of Congress over the Presidency. In the election of 1852, the Whigs from the North were represented by Winfield Scott. Scott’s antislavery reputation negated any support from the South. Alternatively, the Whigs from the South were represented by Millard Fillmore, who was supportive of slavery. The clash between the candidates on the subject of slavery was so divisive, that it led to the split in the Compromise of 1850-weakened Whig party. The…

The start of the tension around territorial expansion was due to the imbalance of free and slave states, which was resolved by the Missouri Compromise. There was also disputed boundaries between Texas and Mexico which lead to the Mexican War in 1846. After the war, American politicians could not agree whether states created from Mexican land would be free or not. This was the baseline tension created, however there were other factors that were much more important. The main factor that lead to…

In the nineteenth-century the expansion of the United States was revolutionized. The desire for land would soar with the invention of the cotton gin and the idea of the Manifest Destiny. The topic of territorial expansion and the effects it would have on the nation as a whole was a heated political topic. Not only would it internally divide the nation but the desire would also spark a war with Mexico and a treaty with the British. During the 1800s, key legislation was made resulting in or from…

Again, Henry Clay suggests an idea to keep from the occurrence of another uprising like the one after the Missouri Compromise. The Compromise of 1850 had something to offer for the North and the South. The Compromise would allow California to become a free state, as a benefit for the North. It would also ban the selling of slaves in Washington D.C., another benefit to the North. To make the south happy, it strengthened fugitive slave laws and settled the organizational details of the territories…

of representation provoked more calls for reform, now in regards to England’s House of Commons, eventually allowing for the rise of the Whig party and the creation of their own reform bill, “The Reform Bill of 1832.” Nevertheless, this bill did not pass the Tory-run House of Lords, inciting riots throughout England. Using this sudden chaos as leverage, the Whigs were able to convince the king, and thus the House of Lords, to allow the bill to pass. Unlike typical reforms on the Continent, this…