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LOCOFOCO MOVEMENT ORIGIN IN NEW YORK STATE (1835-1836)
Prilutskii Vitalii Viktorovich
Bryansk State University named after the academician I. G. Petrovskii
Abstract. The author studies the radical movement locofoco in the USA, its origin, composition, program guidelines and the initial period of political activity, and concludes that the Democratic Party split in 1835, the radical group separation and the independent regional movement formation were conditioned by the intensification of the struggle for financial-banking issue within the country in the context of the second American two-party system formation.
Key words and phrases: движение локофоко, политическая борьба в США в 1835-1836 гг., Демократическая партия США, финансово-банковский вопрос, политический радикализм, тамманисты, Партия равных прав, locofoco movement, political struggle within the United States in 1835-1836, Democratic Party of the USA, financial-banking issue, political radicalism, tammanists, Equal Rights Party
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