Carole Bucy Osher Lifelong Learning - Class 4 16 February, 2016 The Temple, Nashville
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National RepublicansDemocratic Republicans (Jacksonian Democrats) John Quincy Adams, Henry Clay, Daniel Webster Andrew Jackson, Martin Van Buren, James K. Polk Business owners, Southern planters, former New England ex-Federalists “the common man”, former Jeffersonians Support a strong activist federal government (Federalists light) Advocates for a limited national government (Libertarians light) Want government to spend money on public schools & moral reforms Supported sectionalism, states rights & federal restraint in economic & social affairs Want federal involvement at all levels Support only the bare minimum of federal involvement in anything
National RepublicansDemocratic Republicans (Jacksonian Democrats) Supported the Bank of the U. S.Opposed the Bank of the U.S. Advocates of federal spending for projects to benefit the entire country: roads, bridges, canals, & other public improvements Opposed to federal spending for projects within states – including those that crossed state lines (interstate) Support tariffs & manufacturingOppose high protective tariffs Support federal subsidies for the arts, literature, and science Art, literature, science? You’ve got to be kidding! Nationalistic VisionFavored the liberty of the individual – on guard against the inroads of privilege into the government
St. Louis Art Museum - George Caleb Bingham’s “Verdict of the People” Source of image:
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Anti-Masonic Party
William Morgan
A New Political Party Emerges The Whigs
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Clay’s National Republicans Webster’s New England Ex-Federalists States’ Rights Southerners Anti-Masonic Party
Cheekwood – painting by Ralph E. W. Earl – Source:
Source: The Liberty Party nominated James G. Birney, an abolitionist. Birney received 7069 votes in 1840
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1847 stamps
1848 Election- the Whig Zachary Taylor 1850 – Millard Fillmore 1852 – Franklin Pierce 1856 – James Buchanan 1860 Abraham Lincoln
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It needs not a Prophet or talker To tell you in prose or in verse, The exploits of Patriot Walker Whom Tyrants will long deem a curse—
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