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The Whigs supported an American victory in the revolutionary war because they feared that if George III triumphed, his rule at home might become tyrannical.
The American System was supported by the Whig Party. It was also supported by a number of leading politicians including John Calhoun, John Quincy Adams, and Henry Clay.
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They were called "Conscience Whigs".
During the American Revolutionary War, The Americans called the colonists on the American side Whigs and those on the British side Tories. The English term used for those on the British side is Loyalists. Many American books are now going over to the terms Patriots and Loyalists. (The terms Whigs and Tories were borrowed from England. The Tories supported the King. The Whigs supported Parliament. Only, in the United States, the Whigs supported the Continental Congress.)
During the American Revolutionary War, The Americans called the colonists on the American side Whigs and those on the British side Tories. The English term used for those on the British side is Loyalists. Many American books are now going over to the terms Patriots and Loyalists. (The terms Whigs and Tories were borrowed from England. The Tories supported the King. The Whigs supported Parliament. Only, in the United States, the Whigs supported the Continental Congress.)
Under Henry Clay's American System Whigs sought to promote faster industrialization through high tariffs, so yes in general the Whig party supported the use of tariffs.
Whigs in Social Studies can mean a member of the British reforming and constitutional party that wanted Parliament to be supreme. It was succeeded in the 19th century by the Liberal Party. or Whigs can refer to an American colonist who supported the American Revolution.
The Whigs supported an American victory in the revolutionary war because they feared that if George III triumphed, his rule at home might become tyrannical.
Henry Clay supported nationalism and the American system
the whigs and democrats
Whigs or democrats.
The American System was supported by the Whig Party. It was also supported by a number of leading politicians including John Calhoun, John Quincy Adams, and Henry Clay.
The whigs from the North were known as Conscience Whigs and those of the South were known as Cotton Whigs. The ones in the north opposed slavery except for the factory owners, which liked slavery die to the cheap cotton. the Southern Whigs supported slavery and wished to expand it into the territories.
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It would charge high tariffs to pay for infrastructure to help economic development