The Northern Democratic Party was a leg of the Democratic Party during the 1860 presidential election, when the party split in two factions because of disagreements over slavery.

Many Liberty Party members joined the anti-slavery (but not abolitionist) Free Soil Party in 1848 and eventually helped establish the Republican Party in the 1850s….Liberty Party (United States, 1840)

The party was active in both the Northern United States and the Southern United States and did not take a strong stance on slavery, but Northern Whigs tended to be less supportive of that institution than their Democratic counterparts.

Name. The term Whig was originally short for whiggamor, a term meaning “cattle driver” used to describe western Scots who came to Leith for corn.

A Tory (/ˈtɔːri/) is a person who holds a political philosophy known as Toryism, based on a British version of traditionalism and conservatism, which upholds the supremacy of social order as it has evolved in the English culture throughout history.

The best known of these nativist groups came to be called the American Party, and its adherents as Know-Nothings. The aim of the Know-Nothing movement was to combat foreign influences and to uphold and promote traditional American ways.

The Know-Nothing Party, also known as the American Party, was a prominent United States political party during the late 1840s and the early 1850s. The American Party originated in 1849. Its members strongly opposed immigrants and followers of the Catholic Church.

Based on this document, what were three reasons the Know-Nothings targeted Irish Catholics? Three reasons were that the Irish Catholics apparently hated “Liberty of the press”, “Liberty of Speech”, and our “common School system” 2. Because slaves were to valuable to be lost for the jobs they were making the Irish do.

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.

an organization advocating equal rights for all immigrants. What common thread wove together northern men to form the Republican party in 1854? What led to the demise of the Know-Nothing party in the mid-1850s? It ended its opposition to immigration from Ireland and Germany.

Irish men and women first settled in the United States during the 1700s. These were predominantly Scots-Irish and they largely settled into a rural way of life in Virginia, Pennsylvania and the Carolinas.

The Irish diaspora (Irish: Diaspóra na nGael) refers to ethnic Irish people and their descendants who live outside the island of Ireland. By the 21st century, an estimated 80 million people worldwide claimed some Irish descent, which includes more than 36 million Americans claiming Irish as their primary ethnicity.

Citizenship through descent from Irish grandparent If one of your grandparents was born in Ireland, but neither of your parents was born in Ireland, you may become an Irish citizen. You will need to have your birth registered in the Foreign Births Register.