national convention

Examples of national convention in the following topics:

• Women in the Early Republic

  • Lucy Stone met with Paulina Kellogg Wright Davis, Abby Kelley Foster, William Lloyd Garrison, Wendell Phillips, and six other women to organize the National Women's Rights Convention in 1850.
  • This national convention brought together for the first time many of those who had been working individually for women's rights.
  • Following this inaugural 1850 convention, women's rights advocates held national conventions every year save one until the onset of the Civil War.
  • Elizabeth Cady Stanton was conspicuously missing from most of these early conventions.
  • Anthony founded the first national organization for women, the Woman's National Loyal League.

• The Election of 1924

  • The Democratic National Convention of 1924 was considered a disaster that deeply divided the party.
  • It was the longest continually running convention in U.S. political history and required 103 ballots before former U.S.
  • The party that went forward with Davis in 1924 was decidedly Wilsonian, as clearly indicated by the published party platform that read in part, “We, the representatives of the Democratic Party, in national convention assembled, pay our profound homage to the memory of Woodrow Wilson.”
  • The Republican Party National Convention in Cleveland, Ohio, ran from June 10 to June 12 and made history by being the first GOP convention to provide equal representation to women, with a rule change that provided each state with a national committee-man and national committee-woman.
  • Wheeler, saw Coolidge exceed their combined national tally by 2.5 million votes.

• The Election of 1952

  • The 1952 Democratic National Convention was held in Chicago, Illinois.
  • However, from there until the Republican Convention, the primaries were divided fairly evenly between the two men, and by the time the convention opened the race for the nomination was still too close to call.
  • When the 1952 Republican National Convention opened in Chicago, Eisenhower's managers, led by Thomas Dewey and Massachusetts Senator Henry Cabot Lodge, Jr., accused Taft's leaders of unfairly denying delegate spots to Eisenhower supporters.
  • The convention voted to support Fair Play, and Taft lost many Southern delegates.
  • Stevenson concentrated on giving a series of thoughtful speeches around the nation.

• The People's Party and the Election of 1896

  • The 1896 Democratic convention opened at the Chicago Coliseum on July 7, 1896.
  • By 1896, the Democratic Party took up many of the People's Party's causes at the national level, and the party began to fade from national prominence.
  • The "Cross of Gold" speech was delivered by Bryan, a former congressman from Nebraska, at the Democratic National Convention in Chicago on July 9, 1896.
  • In the address, Bryan supported bimetallism or "free silver," which he believed would bring the nation prosperity.
  • 1896 Democratic Convention where Bryan delivered his famous "Cross of Gold" speech.

• Women's Rights

  • The first women's-rights convention was held in Seneca Falls, New York, in July of 1848.
  • The Seneca Falls Convention was hosted by Lucretia Mott, Mary Ann McClintock, and Elizabeth Cady Stanton.
  • In 1850, she met with Paulina Kellogg Wright Davis, Abby Kelley Foster, William Lloyd Garrison, Wendell Phillips, and six other women to organize the larger National Women's Rights Convention.
  • This national convention brought together for the first time many of those who had been working individually for women's rights.
  • Lucy Stone, the first American woman recorded to have retained her own name after marriage, was an important figure in the women's-rights movement of the nineteenth century and an organizer of the National Women's Rights Convention.

• The Hartford Convention

  • At the Hartford Convention of 1814, New England Federalists met to discuss their grievances over current events.
  • His report, delivered three days later, called for resisting any British invasion, criticized the leadership that had brought the nation close to disaster, and called for a convention of New England states to deal with their common grievances and common defense.
  • The convention ended with a report and resolutions, signed by the delegates present and adopted on the day before final adjournment.
  • This changed public sentiment toward the current administration and discredited the complaints of the Federalists, contributing to their final downfall as a major national political force.
  • Describe the political and economic circumstances that gave rise to the Hartford Convention

• Nationalists of the 1780s

  • Long dissatisfied with the weak Articles of Confederation, nationalists drafted a resolution to form the Annapolis Convention.
  • Before the Constitution was drafted, the national government that operated under the Articles of Confederation was too weak to adequately regulate the various conflicts that arose between the states.
  • Rhode Island, fearing that the Convention would work to its disadvantage, boycotted the Convention and in 1788 refused ratification on the first try.
  • The direct result of the report was the Philadelphia Convention of 1787, which produced the United States Constitution.
  • Explain why states were motivated to come together at the Annapolis Convention

• The Farmer's Alliance

  • The movement included several parallel but independent political organizations — the National Farmers' Alliance and Industrial Union among the white farmers of the South, the National Farmers' Alliance among the white and black farmers of the Midwest and High Plains, where the Granger movement had been strong, and the Colored Farmers' National Alliance and Cooperative Union, consisting of the African American farmers of the South.
  • This failure prompted an evolution of the alliance into a political movement to field its own candidates in national elections.
  • The Ocala convention was part of a trend in the farmers' movement of moving from its fraternal and mutual benefit roots towards an increasingly political and radical position.
  • Convention delegates hoped that future political gains would lead to major economic and political reforms.
  • The convention produced the "Ocala Demands," which included a call for the abolition of national banks, an increase of circulating money, free silver, industrial regulations, a graduated income tax, lower tariffs, and the direct election of United States senators.

• The Structure of the Government

  • The Constitutional Convention was convened in Philadelphia in 1787 to address the problems in the Articles of Confederation.
  • The national government under the Articles of Confederation was too weak to adequately regulate the various conflicts that arose between the states.
  • Several proposals were presented by delegates to the Convention outlining various political structures.
  • New Jersey Plans was contentious and almost threatened to shut the Convention down.
  • Describe the work done by the delegates to the Constitutional Convention

• The U.S. Constitution

  • The 1787 Constitutional Convention was convened in Philadelphia to address severe problems and weaknesses in the Articles of Confederation.
  • Several proposals were presented by delegates to the Convention, outlining various political structures.
  • New Jersey Plans was contentious and almost threatened to shut the Convention down.
  • However, unlike the Virginia or New Jersey Plans, most other divisions in the Convention were sectional.
  • Another issue that faced the Convention was creating a balance between state and federal veto power.