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Locofocos - Wikipedia
The Locofocos were a faction of the Democratic Party in the United States that existed from 1835 until the mid-1840s. Cartoon celebrating defeat of ...
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Locofoco Party | Radical Democrats, Jacksonian Democracy ...
Locofoco Party, in US history, radical wing of the Democratic Party, organized in New York City in 1835. Made up primarily of workingmen and reformers.
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[PDF] Loco-foco Matches
Loco-foco matches were early matches which were pieces of pine dipped alternatively into melted brimstone and a phosphorous compound. They were popular in the ...
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loco-foco
loco-foco U.S. (ˈləʊkəʊˈfəʊkəʊ) [An invented word; it is not known what suggested the formation. It has been conjectured that loco was taken from locomotive, wrongly imagined to mean ‘self-moving’; foco may be a jingling alteration of It. fuoco or Sp. fuego fire (the inventor would hardly think of L...
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LOCOFOCO Definition & Meaning - Merriam-Webster
The meaning of LOCOFOCO is a member of a radical group of New York Democrats organized in 1835 in opposition to the regular party organization.
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The Loco-Foco Movement: A Lost Chapter in the History of ...
This column is drawn from a forthcoming presentation at the 2017 American Historical Association annual meeting in Denver, Colorado.
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Loco Foco Expresses, Arriving at Washington
Description (Brief):. In this 1838 caricature, President Martin Van Buren welcomes friends who are members of the Loco Foco party to the White House.
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americanhistory.si.edu
Igniting Interest: Barnum's Views on the Loco-Foco Party
The party began as one of several factions of the Democratic Party in the mid-1830s and called themselves the Equal Rights Democracy.
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The death of locofocoism | Library of Congress
The "Loco Focos" were the largely working-class constituency who supported Van Buren's antimonopoly, antispeculative fiscal agenda whose centerpiece was the ...
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Conclusion — The Loco Foco Party - Gutenberg-e
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 ...
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loco
▪ I. loco, n.1 U.S. (ˈləʊkəʊ) [A use of Sp. loco insane, mad.] a. One of several leguminous plants (chiefly species of Astragalus) found in the western and south-western U.S., which, when eaten by cattle, produce loco-disease. More fully loco-plant, loco-weed.1879 Special Rep. U.S. Dept. Agric. No. ...
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Gorham Parks
He was a local leader of the Loco-foco or radical faction of the Democratic Party, which was anti-bank, anti-paper money, and anti-monopoly.
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torch-light
ˈtorch-ˌlight a. The light of a torch; illumination by a torch or torches.c 1425 Brut ccxliii. 367 He was brouȝt to London on an hors beere, with myche torche lyghte. 1470–85 Malory Arthur xvii. ii. 691 The mayde..armed hym by torche lyght. 1555 Coventry Leet Bk. 813 Euery of them to haue a man weyt...
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Van Brugh Livingston
Webster forwarded the letter to President Fillmore, who wrote: "I do not see how we can appoint a loco-foco, M.F."
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rooster
rooster Chiefly U.S. and dial. (ˈruːstə(r)) [f. roost n.1 + -er1.] 1. a. A cock.1772 A. G. Winslow Diary 14 Mar. (1894) 45 Their other dish..contain'd a number of roast fowls—half a dozen, we suppose, & all roosters at this season no doubt. 1806 Balance (Hudson, N.Y.) 22 July 227 (Th.), The New York...
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