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Britannica online encyclopedia article on Locofoco Party (United States history), in U.S. history, radical wing of the Democratic Party, organized in New York City in 1835. Made up primarily of workingmen and reformers, the Locofocos were opposed to state banks, monopolies, paper money, tariffs, and generally any financial ...
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Facts about Locofoco Party: minor political parties in America, - ...the era not by the major parties but by the minor ones. The Anti-Masons aimed to stamp out an alleged aristocratic conspiracy. ... Locofoco Party (United States history)
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Locofocos - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Encyclopedia article about Locofoco Party. Information about Locofoco Party in the Columbia Encyclopedia, Computer Desktop Encyclopedia, computing dictionary. ... Locofoco Party; Locofocos; locomotion; locomotive; locomotive boiler; locomotive crane; locomotive gradient; locomotive haulage;
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The reformers, however, continued their work by the light of candles and of self-igniting "locofoco" matches, from which their nickname derived. In Jan., 1836, this group organized a new party, called the Friends ... Loco Foco; loco weed; Locofoco Party; Locofocos; locomotion; locomotive; locomotive boiler; locomotive crane;
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Locofoco Party Radical wing of the Democratic Party organized in New York City in 1835. Made up largely of workingmen and reformers, the party opposed ... Britannica Concise Encyclopedia: Locofoco Party...
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Note: The name was first applied, in 1834, to a portion of the Democratic party, because, at a meeting in Tammany Hall, New York, in which there was great diversity of sentiment, the chairman left his seat, and the lights were extinguished, for the purpose of dissolving the meeting; ... Locofoco Party (American history)
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19 January 1839, The Huntress, pg. 3: Origin of the word Locofoco. -- Many of our readers ask frequently the meaning of the term "loco foco" as applied to the Fanny Wright, infidel, agrarian, Jacobin, and leveling portion of the Van Buren party.
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LOCOFOCO PARTY. In the decade before the panic of 1837, discontent among artisans in eastern cities found expression in the Working Men's movement. Disparities in wealth and a tendency toward centralized manufacturing threatened the artisan ideal of equality in a republic of independent producers.
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On February 13, 1837, members of the Equal Rights Party, a Democratic splinter movement dubbed the Loco Focos by New York's Whig press, held a meeting in; City Hall Park to protest the high cost of family necessities and household maintenance.
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