Summary[]
United States Political Party during the 1840s and early 1850s.
Exact Definition[]
An American political group around the 1840s and 1850s that came after the Whig party. They rose massively during 1854, fueled by the fears that the country was being overwhelmed by German and Irish immigrants. Their goal was to slow down/block immigration and naturalization (gaining citizenship) in the US but they had little success and died out pretty fast during the election of 1856, due to opinions over slavery. Hated Irish, Catholics, Irish Catholics, Germans, and pretty much everyone else.
Importance[]
Opposition to Democratic Party, influenced early Republican Party. They shifted American politics during the 1850s and had a huge effect on the voting results especially up North.
Helpful Links[]
Terms from Test Three (Antebellum America)
- "54-40 or Fight!"
- Wilmot Proviso
- Spot Resolutions
- William Lloyd Garrison
- Ostend Manifesto
- Dorr’s Rebellion
- John Jacob Astor
- Aroostook War
- Samuel Slater
- "King Cotton"
- Santa Anna
- "Corrupt bargain"
- Erie Canal
- Eli Whitney
- Forty-niners
- American System
- Lincoln-Douglas Debates
- Battle of San Jacinto
- Spoils system
- Tariff of Abominations
- Peggy Eaton Affair
- Trail of Tears
- Horace Mann
- Dorothea Dix
- Uncle Tom’s Cabin
- Elizabeth Cady Stanton
- Frederick Douglass
- Henry Clay
- Gadsden Purchase
- Francis Cabot Lowell
- Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo
- Kansas-Nebraska Act
- Seneca Falls (1848)
- Compromise of 1850
- Jacksonian Democracy
- Martin van Buren
- Oneida Community
- Force Bill
- Specie Circular (1836)
- Alexis de Tocqueville
- "Burned-over district"
- Nullification
- Secession Crisis (1832)
- Worcester v. Georgia