Examples of War Democrats in the following topics:
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- In the early nineteenth century, President James Madison faced pressure from Democratic-Republican "war hawks" to go to war with Britain.
- President James Madison, who was elected as Thomas Jefferson's successor in 1808, was pressured by a faction of young Democratic-Republican congressmen from the South and West of the United States to go to war with Great Britain.
- The term "war hawks" was a name used for a historical group of Democratic-Republicans in the early nineteenth century who pushed for war with Great Britain.
- The older members of the Democratic-Republican Party, led by President James Madison and Secretary of the Treasury Albert Gallatin, also tried unsuccessfully to defeat the war hawks movement, believing that the United States was not prepared for war—which in the end turned out to be true.
- Discuss the reasons for war with Great Britain proposed by the "war hawks"
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- Coterminously with the outbreak of conflict with Mexico, Polk and the Democrats began to threaten war with Great Britain over a dispute on the U.S.
- -British boundary in Oregon.However, rather than go to war with both Mexico and Britain, Polk opted for a diplomatic compromise to divide the Oregon territory at the 49th parallel.The compromise was made official by the Oregon Treaty in 1846.This allowed Polk to concentrate on the conflict with Mexico and gave the U.S. present-day Oregon, Washington, Idaho, and Wyoming.However, the Oregon Treaty also angered war-hungry northern Democrats who criticized Polk for prioritizing southern expansion over northern expansion.
- However, the Mexican War was the source of much political conflict in the 1840s and compounded the sectional divides that already split national political coalitions.Most Whigs in the North and South opposed the war, while most Democrats supported it.In particular, Southern Democrats who were animated by the belief in Manifest Destiny enthusiastically supported the war in hope of adding slave-owning territory to the South (and thereby maintaining a political-balance of power with the faster-growing North).For most Whigs, the Mexican War represented little more than a weak justification by southern politicians for the aggressive expansion of slavery.However, Polk and southern Democrats continued to justify the war using arguments of Manifest Destiny and claiming that territory ceded from Mexico would repay the United States for several hefty loans given to the Mexican government during its war of independence.
- Whigs who had opposed the war from the start.
- Map of the Mexican-American War, with routes of both Taylor and Scott's campaigns.
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- The "Reign of Witches" was a descriptive catchphrase used by Democratic-Republicans to criticize the Federalist Alien and Sedition Acts.
- In addition to the Alien and Sedition Acts, Democratic-Republicans cited the increasing size of a standing army, the Quasi-War with France, and a general expansion of federal power as evidence of the Federalists' corrupt designs for the United States.
- The Alien and Sedition Acts were four bills passed in 1798 by the Federalists in the 5th United States Congress, in the midst of the French Revolution and the undeclared naval war with France, the Quasi-War.
- They were signed into law by President John Adams and were intended as a direct political attack on the Democrat-Republicans.
- Despite the XYZ Affair and the Quasi War, which had incited francophobic sentiment in the majority of the American public, Democrat-Republicans remained pro-French and outspoken critics of the Federalist administration.
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- The modern Democratic Party arose in the 1830s out of factions from the largely disbanded Democratic-Republican Party.
- The modern Democratic Party was formed in the 1830s from former factions of the Democratic-Republican Party, which had largely collapsed by 1824.
- It was primarily built by Martin Van Buren, who rallied a cadre of politicians in every state behind war hero Andrew Jackson of Tennessee.
- The party favored the war with Mexico and opposed anti-immigrant nativism.
- Most Whigs, including Illinois Congressman Abraham Lincoln, strongly opposed the war.
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- Kennedy, widespread demonstrations against the Vietnam War at college campuses, and violent confrontations between police and anti-war protesters at the 1968 Democratic National Convention.
- In the election of 1964, Democrat Lyndon B.
- His death altered the dynamics of the Democratic race.
- When the 1968 Democratic National Convention opened in Chicago, thousands of young activists from around the nation gathered in the city to protest the Vietnam War.
- The antiwar riots divided the Democratic Party's base.
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- Alexander Hamilton and the Federalists supported Britain, while Vice President Thomas Jefferson and the Democratic-Republicans favored France.
- When Adams entered office, he decided to continue Washington's policy of staying out of the European war.
- Adams' independent management style allowed him to avoid war with France, despite a strong desire for war among his cabinet secretaries and Congress.
- Although the Quasi-War was effectively a naval war fought between the French and the United States in the Caribbean, it was ultimately Adams' decision to push for peace with France rather than continue hostilities.
- Congress, in the midst of the French Revolution and the undeclared Quasi-War with France.
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- Following the Civil War, political-racial tensions built up in the South, leading to a period of radical military rule.
- In response, the Democrats tried a strategy called the "New Departure."
- This "New Departure" offered the chance for a clean slate without having to symbolically fight the Civil War every election.
- Redeemers denounced taxes higher than what they had known before the war.
- This political cartoon from 1877 depicts the Democrats' control over the South.
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- The more conservative Southern
Democrats such as John C.
- Many Northern, antislavery Democrats flocked to
the Free-Soil coalition and joined Northern Whigs to form the Republican
Party, whereas Southern, proslavery Democrats coalesced to form the Southern
Democratic Party.
- This political cartoon about the 1848 presidential election refers to Zachary Taylor and Winfield Scott, the two leading contenders for the Whig Party nomination in the aftermath of the Mexican-American War.
- President Andrew Jackson was hailed as the founder of the Democratic Party.
- Examine the points of contention within the Whig and Democratic Parties
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- William Jefferson "Bill" Clinton, Democratic Governor of Arkansas, was elected President of the United States in 1992 and served two terms.
- Bill Clinton’s presidency and efforts at remaking the Democratic Party—he described himself as a New Democrat—reflect the long-term effects of the Reagan Revolution that preceded him.
- Carrying his New Democrat ideals, Clinton moved the Democratic party significantly to the moderate center and supported the Republican call for law and order and welfare reform—all while maintaining traditional Democratic commitments to minorities, women, and the disadvantaged and using the government to stimulate economic growth.
- For decades, the contours of the Cold War had largely determined U.S. action abroad; strategists saw each coup, revolution, and civil war as part of the larger struggle between the two major superpowers.
- Clinton envisioned a post-Cold War role in which the United States used its overwhelming military superiority and influence to act as a kind of global policing agent and preserve peace.
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- Republican President Bush faced opposition for many of his initiatives by the Democratic Congress, resulting in a gridlocked government.
- Because of the Democratic Party majority in both houses, Republican President George H.
- Reagan’s policies of cutting taxes and increasing defense spending in relation to the Cold War had exploded the federal budget deficit, making it three times larger in 1989 than when Reagan took office in 1980.
- He began an effort to persuade the Democratic controlled Congress to act on the budget.
- Red indicates 2 Republican seats, dark blue indicates 2 Democratic seats, and pink indicates one Republican and one Democratic seat.