In 1980, a strategist for this party leaked to the press that Tom Turnipseed “got hooked up to jumper cables,” thus making fun of depression.

When preceded by “National”, this names a short-lived political party led by Henry Clay and John Quincy Adams.

When preceded by “Liberal”, this word names a splinter party that nominated Horace Greeley for president.

Political party, founded to oppose slavery, that nominated him for President in 1860.

Most commonly, this word names a party founded in Ripon, Wisconsin.

This party was the subject of Rick Perlstein's 2001 book Before the Storm.

Party's "Radical" members pushed for the impeachment?

The issue of the spoils system divided this political party into factions called Stalwarts and Half Breeds until the passage of the Pendleton Civil Service Act by Chester Arthur, himself a member of this political party.

More recently, eight members of the Georgia State Assembly did this in 2010, though former Senator Zell Miller has notably not done this act.

In the first decades of the twentieth century, this organization was divided into “lily-white” and “black and tan” factions over the issue of African-American participation.

Azariah Flagg and Silas Wright led a wing of this party that opposed corruption as a farmer would oppose rats in a barn.

This party accepted opponent William Pitt Kellogg's election as governor of Louisiana in exchange for house seats in the Wheeler Compromise.

Perceived progressive members of this party, who favored internal improvements and state banks, were labeled Hunkers.

This party controlled the "Solid South," though it lost control of Southern states during the Reagan era.

The Albany Regency was opposed by this party’s Barnburner faction which also opposed James Polk.

Its rival used the “Southern Strategy” to convert members of this party.

Wilson was the first president from this party since Grover Cleveland.

Was in what party opposed by the Whigs during his term?

Members of this party formed the Barnwell Ring.

John A. Burns was the first member of this party to be elected Governor of Hawai'i. :Name this party, which experienced a namesake revolution in 1954, where it won a majority in Hawai'i's Territorial Legislature over the Republicans.

This organization’s last gasp of power was under Carmine De Sapio.

Plunkitt was a member of this political machine, whose leaders were known as Sachems.

This organization turned off the lights in meetings to stifle dissidents, leading their opposition to be called the Locofocos.

This organization, led by “Honest” John Kelly, faded away shortly after the fall of Carmine DiSapio.

A member of this organization, George Washington Plunkitt, distinguished between “dishonest” and “honest graft.” This organization tried to break up a meeting of William Legget’s Locofocos by shutting off gaslights at a meeting.

Name these players in New York City politics .This executive circle of the city’s Democratic Party used machine tactics to maintain control of the lower class vote until it was outmaneuvered by Franklin Roosevelt.

After this organization shut off the gaslights to silence their opposition, a group that opposed this organization started meeting under matchlight and became known as the locofocos.

This group pulled its support for Jimmy Walker, partly because of his frequent affairs with “chorus girls.” An image captioned “Let Us Prey” depicted this group’s members as vultures.

The first Catholic nominee for president, Al Smith, was strongly backed by this organization, which was developed by Aaron Burr but lost influence during Franklin D. Roosevelt’s governorship.

This institution was very popular among Irish immigrants, was mocked by the cartoons of reformer Thomas Nast, and was once led by the corrupt “Boss” Tweed.

This party, later revived for reformer Robert La Follette’s [[luh-FAH-lets]] 1924 presidential run, first formed after William Howard Taft beat an opponent at the RNC.

This party claimed to adhere to "New Nationalism" and a "Square Deal," becoming the only third party to finish ahead of the Republicans when that party nominated William H. Taft.

Saloon owner John Flammang Schrank shot a candidate of this party, failing to kill him due to the presence of a steel eyeglass case.

A presidential candidate from this party continued a speech despite having a bullet lodged inside him after an assassination attempt by John Flammang Schrank.

This party's initial financial backers included U.S. Steel magnate Frank Munsey.

One of its financial backers freely distributed copies of its leader's "Confession of Faith" and was denounced by another member of this party as "Gabby George." George Perkins was thus mocked by Gifford Pinchot, whose conflict with Ballinger contributed to the founding of this party at Chicago's Orchestra Hall.

Its leader declared that “We stand at Armageddon” in the “Confession of Faith ” speech given at its formative convention in Chicago, while funding for it was largely provided by Frank Munsey and George Perkins, both of whom were criticized for their corporate ties.

For their first terms, Walter Marion Chandler of New York and Roy Woodruff of Michigan were elected to Congress under the banner of this party, and Miles Poindexter spent two years as its only serving senator.

Roosevelt led this center-left party after 1912 and beat William Taft and only lost toWoodrow Wilson in that year’s election. It is also called the “Bull Moose” party after Roosevelt survived an assassination attempt.

One of this party's candidates for Boston mayor commissioned the writing of the song “Charlie on the MTA” and was fined ten dollars for his only apparent campaign activity, which was driving around Boston in a van blasting the song from a loudspeaker.

Herman Melville was awfully proud of his "doubly revolutionary descent." Name some things about it, :On his father's side, Melville descended from Thomas Melvill, a member of this colonial group who perpetrated the Boston Tea Party.

Emerging from a group called the “Loyal Nine,” which included publishers John Gill and Benjamin Edes, this group emerged from the Committees of Correspondence, with New York and Boston branches forming separately.

One of the first acts by this group was the burning of an effigy of Andrew Oliver near a boot with a papier-mache devil emerging, the latter a play on the name of the Earl of Bute.

The tea-dumpers were drawn from this secret organization, led in part by Samuel Adams. They were responsible for the tarring and feathering of many a British tax collector.

This organization erected a granite monument featuring an inscription by Nathaniel Ames, originally topped with a now-missing wooden column and bust.

A group claiming descent from this organization became a lodge for socialist miners in West Virginia which passed the “Red Man Act” in response.

The Battle of Golden Hill broke out after sticks topped with Phrygian caps put up by this organization were repeatedly cut down.

This group was responsible for the capture of a repository at Turtle Bay, and their habit of erecting large poles lead to the Battle of Golden Hill.

Members of this group were responsible for the death of William Dudingston and aided Abraham Whipple in the capture of a ship in Narragansett Bay.

This organization met underneath an elm tree from which they hung a boot in protest of Lord Bute.

Rufus King was the last presidential candidate nominated by this party, which formed the Hartford Convention to galvanize opposition to the War of 1812.

This party twice nominated Charles Pinckney for President, with Pinckney soundly losing both times.

Early U.S. political party which collapsed following the Hartford Convention of 1814-15.

Despite not running a candidate in the Election of 1820, this party managed to earn sixteen percent of the popular vote.

Fisher Ames was a leader of this party in the House of Representatives.

This party fielded its final presidential candidate in the same year that candidate lost the New York governorship election to Daniel D. Tompkins.

Some members of this party were called “blue-lighters” for sending treasonous maritime signals.

This party's last informal presidential nominee, Rufus King, lost in a landslide to the man who previously succeeded him as Ambassador to Great Britain.

In the Philadelphia paper The Port Folio, members of this party wrote a welcome platform under pseudonyms until Nicholas Biddle became its editor.

To maintain this party’s base of power, Arthur St. Clair wanted to split the state of Ohio into two parts.

This third party nominated James B. Weaver in 1892, who won five western states. This party advocated for the rights of farmers and urban workers.

Bryan’s presidential campaign was backed by this third party, which crusaded against banks and railroads on behalf of poor farmers.

Thomas E. Watson was this party’s last nominee for President, receiving just over 29,000 votes in 1908.

Ignatius Donnely wrote the preamble to the platform for this party, and its first presidential candidate, who won only four states, was James Baird Weaver.

A novel promoting this political party explained that Baron Rothe was manipulating American currency and was written by the creator of its pamphlet Coin's Financial School.

With Grover Cleveland and Benjamin Harrison, this party’s candidate, James Weaver, evenly split North Dakota's three electoral votes.

Left-wing agrarian party that supported him through many of his presidential runs.

L.L. Polk founded this party, almost becoming its 1892 presidential nominee.

This party was dubbed "gibbering idiots" by the "sage of Emporia," William White.

In 1900, members of this party gathered in Cincinnati to nominate William Baker.

William Tubman served as president for 27 years under a party with this name, which is the oldest political party in Liberia.

Horace Mann, who established a model for public schools in Massachusetts, was a member of this party, as was its “Conscience” faction that founded the Free Soil Party.

In its first presidential election, this party tried to split the vote regionally by running four different candidates.

This party won the “log cabin and apple cider” campaign by depicting a wealthy nominee as a man of the people nicknamed “Tippecanoe.” Its only two elected presidents were both generals who died in office.

In 1856, this political party nominated Millard Fillmore as their final Presidential candidate, despite the fact that he had already been nominated by the Know-Nothing Party.

One member of this political party had an affair with Georgianna Cavendish and helped craft a document that outlawed slavery in the British Empire.

A President from this party known as “His Accidency” was shunned by this party after signing the Tariff of 1842.

One faction of this group which was led by Francis Granger supported the former editor of the Buffalo Commercial Advertiser, who had been earlier defeated in a governor's race by Silas Wright, against his intra-party rival, a future Secretary of State and ally of Thurlow Weed.

During the speech, Ogle compared William Henry Harrison to a “silver spoon” in an attempt to showcase him as the ideal candidate for this party. This party was split into Conscience and Cotton factions during disputes over slavery.

This political party evolved into the Republican Party and was created by Henry Clay. :Name this party formed in opposition to Andrew Jackson. This political party nominated war heroes like Winfield Scott for President.

Riots named for this party broke out after Thomas Swann was elected mayor of Baltimore.

One political party was created because it felt that Catholic immigrants were gaining too much control of the US in the 1840's. :Name this party which only fielded a presidential candidate in 1856.

During the 1854 electoral season, this party won the second-most popular votes ahead of the Whigs but behind the dominant Democratic Party.

John Edward Bouligny, a Creole member of this party, was the only Louisiana representative to refuse to sign the secession from the Union.

Members of this party include a governor who ordered the burning of railroad bridges leading to Baltimore.

A major leader of this party defected to become the Republican governor of Massachussetts; that was Nathaniel Banks.

Answer the following about an American history, :This movement, which sought to curb the influence and power of newly arrived Roman Catholics, was composed of loosely associated secret orders including the “Order of the Spangled Banner.”

It emerged from the Order of the Star-Spangled Banner, which began holding secret meetings in 1849. :Identify this political party, which was officially known as the American party but took its better-known name from a catchphrase used by its members.

Poole was an active member of this nativist political party founded in 1844 by Lewis Levin whose derisive-sounding nickname referred to its members' extreme secrecy.

Although some supported temperance, the only vice presidential candidate of this political party was based out of Tulip Grove and was Andrew Donelson.

This party's vice-presidential candidates included George Julian and Charles Francis Adams.

Running on this party's ticket, education reformer Horace Mann lost an election for governor of Massachusetts.

All six signers of the Appeal of the Independent Democrats left to join this party.

An Indianapolis newspaper named for this political party's Banner published from 1948 to 1954.

Nearly a third of supporters in its best year came from New York State, which prevented that state from going Democratic. Many of its backers were New York Democrats who quarreled with the Hunkers and started this party at a convention in Buffalo.

This third party came together in 1848, breaking from the Democrats. :What party demanded that slavery be outlawed in new territories, captured in their slogan which also included “Free Speech, Free Labor, and Free Men”?

Its second vice presidential candidate went on to propose a constitutional amendment providing for women’s suffrage and delivered a notable speech, “The Gospel of Reform,” in support of Samuel Tilden.

The political cartoon "Shooting the Christmas Turkey" shows another candidate from this party as a fox grabbing the turkey while two candidates from other parties bicker.

Its first vice presidential candidate wrote Conservatism and Reform and Struggle for Neutrality in America, and served as ambassador to Great Britain during the Civil War.

David Terry, the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of California, mortally wounded senator David Broderick in a duel for supporting this political party.

A more recent one of these events saw Yippie protests lead to conspiracy and incitement to riot charges against the Chicago Seven.

This political faction was opposed by the White League and the Red Shirts, paramilitary groups that supported the Redeemers.

Anticipating the dismissal of War Secretary Edwin Stanton, this faction passed the Tenure of Office Act.

This faction passed legislation that created five districts, each ruled by a different general.

This faction proposed the Ironclad Oath to prevent their enemies from taking office.

One of the first times this group flexed its political muscle was when it torpedoed A.T. Stewart’s nomination as Treasury Secretary.

The appointment of William Robertson to a port collector position in New York earned the ire of this faction.

This group included the Immortal 306, which would back their president at every turn.

Prominent opponents of this faction included Carl Schurz and William Robertson.

That leader of this faction had served as Thaddeus Stevens's bodyguard in the House.

Two Senators from this political faction resigned to protest the violation of a patronage deal known as the "Treaty of Fifth Avenue." One member of this faction was nicknamed “Me Too" and later became a political boss who united the five boroughs of New York into a single city to increase his power.

Name these things about a political group, FTP each:The Republican party near the end of the 19th century was divided into two factions. This one favored patronage, thus opposing civil service reform, unlike their counterparts the Half-Breeds.

That member of this faction was ridiculed for his “haughty disdain” and “turkey-gobbler strut,” and had earlier declared that the president had “treacherously betrayed a sacred trust” when he nominated Judge William Robertson to a certain position.

A member of this group gave a dramatic nominating speech that featured him leaping on the reporter’s table and sucking a lemon.

A leader of this group had an afair with Kate Sprague, and was reportedly chased out of her home with a gun by her husband.

Its presidential ticket, consisting of Amos Ellmaker and William Wirt, received seven electoral votes in the 1832 election. It was formed in reaction to the disappearance of William Morgan.

Another one of their candidates for higher office in a later incarnation was the first president of Wheaton College, Jonathan Blanchard.

After this party took over the Rhode Island legislature, it passed a state law banning any type of oath or obligation made outside a courtroom.

While serving in the New York State Assembly and Senate, both Millard Fillmore and William Seward were members of this party, which nominated William Wirt for the presidency.

Solomon Southwick’s National Observer was a newspaper for this party, whose loss in an 1828 New York election started a rivalry with the Democratic-Republicans.

John W. Phelps ran on this party’s ticket in the 1880 Presidential election, but received just over 1,000 votes.

State lottery organizer Solomon Southwick was a leader of this party, the original one backed by the Enquirer newspaper of Thurlow Weed.

Under the banner of this party, Pennsylvania's Joseph Ritner and Vermont's William Palmer both served gubernatorial terms.

Answer the following about a third party per part.The first-ever political nominating convention was held in 1831 by this party opposed to the re-election of Andrew Jackson, among other things.

People who didn’t vote for either of the two big parties generally went for this first major U.S. third party, a single-issue party that was strongest in states with weak opposition.

George E. Pugh was an Ohio senator from this group, as was Congressman Alexander Long.

Another member of this group plotted to seize the arsenal in Indianapolis and overthrow the Indiana state government; that plot led to David Davis writing an opinion that martial law has no jurisdiction in areas with functional civil courts in an ex Parte case involving another member.

Clement Vallandigham, a leader of this political faction, died after shooting himself in in the stomach in court while trying to prove that the person his client was accusing had accidentally shot himself in the stomach. :Identify this faction of northern Democrats in the Union who opposed the Civil War.

The subject of a namesake Harold Frederic novel, their members included Daniel Vorhees and Edward G. Roddy, who promoted their ideas in the Pennsylvania newspaper The Genius of Liberty.

In 2016, this specific animal’s name was given to a newly discovered spaceship in Conway’s Game of Life that is only 28 cells and is the first to move at a speed of c over ten.

Another prominent member of this group conspired with William Bowles, Joshua Bullitt, and others to seize Johnson’s Island and Camp Chase and was condemned to death.

Not everyone in the North was against the Confederacy during the Civil War. :Indiana senator Daniel Voorhees was a member of this group of Democrats opposed to the Civil War that was named after a snake.

Vallandigham belonged to this faction of the Democrats, along with Alexander Long. This faction, named after a type of snake, pushed for an immediate peace during the American Civil War.

This criticism prompted General Ambrose Burnside’s Order Number 38, which made it a crime in Ohio to criticize the Civil War in any way.

One member of this group, Nelson Wells, shot at Oliver Sallee in what some accounts claim instigated the Charleston Riot.