Definition and meaning of John Adams:

Adams, John

Adams was Washington's vice-president and defeated Jefferson for the presidency in the election of 1796. He resisted his party's demand for war with France during his term.

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Definition and meaning of John Quincy Adams:

Adams, John Quincy

Adams was President Monroe's very successful secretary of state, but, after winning the Election of 1824, had a very troubled and unsuccessful single term in the presidency.

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Definition and meaning of border ruffians:

border ruffians

The "border ruffians" were Missourians who, during the territorial and statehood elections in Kansas in the mid-1850s, crossed the border into Kansas specifically to vote for the proslavery candidates.

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Definition and meaning of Jimmy Carter:

Carter, Jimmy

Carter, a former governor of Georgia, was elected president in 1976. He was inexperienced in national politics and had a troubled one-term presidency.

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Definition and meaning of Bill Clinton:

Clinton, Bill

Clinton, former governor of Arkansas, was elected president in 1992 and 1996. He presided over two administrations that were mostly moderate and flexible on domestic policy and noninterventionist in foreign policy.

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Definition and meaning of Mugwumps:

Mugwumps

In the 1884 presidential election, a group of eastern Republicans, disgusted with corruption in the party, campaigned for the Democrats. These Mugwumps thought corruption brought inefficiency to government, but were conservative on the money question and government regulation.

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Definition and meaning of Dan Quayle:

Quayle, Dan

Indiana Senator Dan Quayle was elected vice president in 1988.

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Definition and meaning of John Winthrop:

Winthrop, John

Winthrop, a lawyer, served for over twenty years as the elected governor of the Puritan's Massachusetts Bay colony.

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Definition and meaning of Henry A. Wallace:

Wallace, Henry A.

Wallace was Franklin Roosevelt's secretary of agriculture in the 1930s and was elected vice president in 1940. He unsuccessfully ran for president on the Progressive party ticket in 1948.

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Definition and meaning of Wide Awakes:

Wide Awakes

This group of red-shirted, black-caped young men paraded through city streets in the North extolling the virtues of the Republican party during the 1860 presidential election campaign.

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Definition and meaning of Zachary Taylor:

Taylor, Zachary

Taylor was the commander of American armies in northern Mexico during the Mexican War. In 1848 he was elected president as a Whig candidate. He died in office in 1850.

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Definition and meaning of Seventeenth Amendment:

Seventeenth Amendment

This Constitutional change in 1913 established the direct popular election of U.S. senators.

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Definition and meaning of suffrage:

suffrage

Suffrage is the right to vote in a political election.

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Definition and meaning of Rutherford B. Hayes:

Hayes, Rutherford B.

Ohio Governor Rutherford Hayes was the Republican nominee for president in 1876. He was elected when a special electoral commission gave several disputed electoral votes to him.

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Definition and meaning of House of Burgesses:

House of Burgesses

The House of Burgesses was established in Virginia in 1619 as an advisory body to the colony's governors. It was the seed of the system of elected representative government in America.

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Definition and meaning of House of Commons:

House of Commons

The House of Commons was the lower house of the British Parliament, which included representatives elected by England's propertied class.

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Definition and meaning of John Nance Garner:

Garner, John Nance

Garner, from Texas, was elected vice president in 1932 and 1936.

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Definition and meaning of fusion:

fusion

Fusion refers to the political strategy adopted by Populists and Republicans in North Carolina during their successful 1894 election campaign.

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Definition and meaning of Representative Government

Representative Government

In a representative government, power is held by the people and exercised through the efforts of representatives elected by those people.

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Definition and meaning of Republicanism

Republicanism

Republicanism is a philosophy of limited government with elected representatives serving at the will of the people. Republicanism says that the only legitimate government is one based on the consent of the governed.

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Definition and meaning of Representative Government

Representative Government

In a representative government, power is held by the people and exercised through the efforts of representatives elected by those people.

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Definition and meaning of Republicanism

Republicanism

Republicanism is a philosophy of limited government with elected representatives serving at the will of the people. Republicanism says that the only legitimate government is one based on the consent of the governed.

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