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Whigs and Tories
This group became known as the Whigs, and they showed their flair for organisation and propaganda through their overwhelming victories in the elections for the three 'Exclusion Parliaments' of 1679-81 ...
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Democrats Face Fate of Whigs
In 1834, Clay established the Whig Party, choosing the name to evoke the opposition to Tory royalists in England. Slaveholding states who resented Jackson’s strong defense of the Union aligned ...
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Society and politics in early modern Wales (part 3)
with the Whigs supporting both the dethronement of James II in 1688 and the accession of the Hanoverian dynasty in 1714, and the Tories accepting those changes reluctantly. By the mid-18th century ...
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A Dissertation On The Rise, Progress, Views, Strength, Interests And Characters, Of The Two Parties Of The Whigs And Tories
Dissertation On The Rise, Progress, Views, Strength, Interests And Characters, Of The Two Parties Of The Whigs And Tories (Online) ...
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The Convention and Bill of Rights
The Whigs and Tories in the Convention argued for days over whether James II had abdicated and had thereby made the throne vacant or whether he had temporarily deserted the throne, by which a regency ...
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Birth of political parties
Many Scots emigrated to England and the expanding colonies. The Whigs and the Tories were the first political parties in Britain. The Tories were descendants (conservatories) of the Royalists ...