Whig

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

The term whig was coined when an insurgency of the Scottish Presbyterians known as Covenanters marched from the south west of Scotland on Edinburgh in 1648, with the country folk using the word "whiggam" to urge on their horses. As a result, the episode became known as the "Whiggamore Raid" and the terms Whiggamore and Whig were subsequently used as nicknames for the radical Kirk Party faction.<ref>Origin of the term Whig: 1913dictionary.com</ref> During the Exclusion Bill crisis of 1678-1681 the nickname was then given in England to the loose political grouping of the British Whig Party.

It may refer to:

[edit] Political parties and groups

• Kirk Party, a radical faction of the Scottish Covenanters in the mid 17th century (the original whigs)
• British Whig Party, a loose political grouping in late 17th Scotland and England to mid 19th century Great Britain. The term continued in use as a nickname for what became the Liberal Party, and is still used occasionally for their successors the Liberal Democrats<ref>Examples of "Whig" used of LibDems: Fight the flour where a LibDem raffled VIP tickets, Guardian Unlimited Politics reminiscences by Laurence Howarth</ref>
• Radical Whigs, a group of political commentators in Great Britain who played a significant role in the development of the American Revolution
• a Whig, usually referred to as a Patriot (American Revolution), a British North American colonist who supported the establishment of the independent states that became the United States of America
• Whig Party (United States) (1833 – 1860)
• True Whig Party, also known as the "Liberian Whig Party", Liberia's only legal political party from 1878 to 1980
• American Whig-Cliosophic Society, also known as "Whig-Clio", a college political, literary, and debating society, especially at Princeton College
• WHIG, the White House Iraq Group
• Whig School of History a loose confederation of historians who viewed the history of the world as improving in a teleological manner.

[edit] Fictional organization

• Confederate States Whig Party, a fictional political party in Harry Turteldove's alternate history book series

[edit] Newspapers

• Cecil Whig (Cecil County, Maryland, United States)
• Kingston Whig Standard, (Kingston, Ontario, Canada)
• Knoxville Whig, (Knoxville, Tennessee, United States)
• Quincy Herald-Whig, (Quincy, Illinois, United States)

[edit] Music

• The Afghan Whigs, a 1990s indie rock band
• The Whigs, a 2000s garage rock band

[edit] See also

• Wig (hair) for the article on toupees
• the various articles whose title begins with "Whig"
• Radicals (UK), who helped to transform the British Whig Party into the modern British Liberal Party
• Tory, as the historically opposing political movement

[edit] Notes

<references/>

it:Whig he:המפלגה הוויגית (פירושונים) ja:ホイッグ党 no:Whig zh:辉格党