The Free Soil Party was a short-lived coalition political party in the United States active from 1848 to 1854, when it merged into the Republican Party.The party was largely focused on the single issue of opposing the expansion of slavery into the western territories of the United States.. The Free Soil Party formed during the 1848 presidential election, which took place in the aftermath …

Blood and soil (German: Blut und Boden) is a nationalist slogan expressing Nazi Germany's ideal of a racially defined national body ("blood") united with a settlement area ("soil"). By it, rural and farm life forms are idealized as a counterweight to urban ones. It is tied to the contemporaneous German concept of Lebensraum, the belief that the German people were to expand into Eastern …

Abraham Lincoln (/ ˈ l ɪ ŋ k ən / LINK-ən; February 12, 1809 – April 15, 1865) was an American lawyer and statesman who served as the 16th president of the United States from 1861 until his assassination in 1865. Lincoln led the nation through the American Civil War and succeeded in preserving the Union, abolishing slavery, bolstering the federal government, and modernizing …

Washington commonly refers to: . Washington (state), United States Washington, D.C., the capital of the United States Federal government of the United States (metonym); Washington metropolitan area, the metropolitan area centered on Washington, D.C.; George Washington (1732–1799), the first president of the United States; Washington may also refer to:

The Anti-Masonic Party, also known as the Anti-Masonic Movement, was the earliest third party in the United States. Formally a single-issue party, it strongly opposed Freemasonry, but it later aspired to become a major party by expanding its platform to take positions on other issues.After emerging as a political force in the late 1820s, most of the Anti-Masonic Party's members …

Decentralization or decentralisation is the process by which the activities of an organization, particularly those regarding planning and decision making, are distributed or delegated away from a central, authoritative location or group.. Concepts of decentralization has been applied to group dynamics and management science in private businesses and organizations, political science, …

Born in Tehran, to Reza Khan (later Reza Shah Pahlavi) and his second wife, Tadj ol-Molouk, Mohammad Reza was the eldest son of Reza Khan, who later became the first Shah of the Pahlavi dynasty, and the third of his eleven children.His father, a former Brigadier-General of the Persian Cossack Brigade, was Mazandarani origin. His father was born in Alasht, Savadkuh County, …

The Free Soil Party was still the strongest third party in 1852. However, following the Compromise of 1850, most of the "Barnburners" who supported it in 1848 had returned to the Democratic Party while most of the Conscience Whigs rejoined the Whig Party. The second Free Soil National Convention assembled in the Masonic Hall in Pittsburgh ...

The People's Party, also known as the Populist Party or simply the Populists, was a left-wing agrarian populist late-19th-century political party in the United States. The Populist Party emerged in the early 1890s as an important force in the Southern and Western United States, but collapsed after it nominated Democrat William Jennings Bryan in the 1896 United States presidential …

State politics. Most political offices are currently held by members of the Republican Party. Both U.S. Senators and 5 of out the 9 House of Representatives members are Democrats, (the other four are Republicans) Many were first elected in the 2018 elections.The following table indicates the political parties of elected officials in Arizona: