log cabin campaign

(noun)

The United States presidential election of 1840 saw President Martin Van Buren fight for re-election against an economic depression and a Whig Party unified for the first time behind war hero William Henry Harrison and his "log cabin campaign. "

Related Terms

  • Panic of 1837
  • William Henry Harrison

Examples of log cabin campaign in the following topics:

  • The Election of 1840

    • In the wake of the Panic of 1837, William Henry Harrison won the Election of 1840 with his "log cabin campaign" appeal to ordinary people.
    • The opposing Whig Party was unified for the first time behind war hero William Henry Harrison, who utilized his "log cabin campaign" to recruit voters alienated by the national economic climate.
    • Although Harrison was comfortably wealthy and well educated and it was Van Buren who had actually come from a relatively poor, working family, Harrison's "log cabin" image caught fire, sweeping all sections of the country.
    • Harrison was the first president to actively campaign for office, but he avoided campaigning on the issues, particularly slavery or the national bank.
    • Said one Democratic newspaper: "Give him a barrel of hard cider, and…a pension of two thousand [dollars] a year…and…he will sit the remainder of his days in his log cabin. " Whigs, eager to deliver what the public wanted, took advantage of this and declared that Harrison was "the log cabin and hard cider candidate," a man of the common people from the rough-and-tumble West.
  • Movement South and Westward

    • Many Americans, both poor and rich, idealized Andrew Jackson, who became president in 1829, because he had started life in a log cabin in frontier territory.
  • The Impending Crisis

    • The Impending Crisis of the South condemns the institution of slavery, but Helper did not employ a sentimental or moralistic abolitionist approach to his arguments (in contrast to Harriet Beecher Stowe's Uncle Tom's Cabin).
    • The Republican Party heavily cited this version during the 1860 election campaign in order to bolster their claims that Northern industry and prosperity were directly tied to free labor and free soil, and that the expansion of slavery into new territories threatened the economic advancement of the United States.
  • The Wilderness Road

    • Hence, for safety reasons, entire communities and church congregations would often travel the road together to found new settlements, taking advantage of the defensive log blockhouses (or stations) built alongside the road for protection.
    • It took several years to build cabins and clear the land of trees and undergrowth to make way for fields and crops.
  • New product: the tangible rim on the wheel

    • Once you have completed your process log you must repeat the analysis phase.
    • Because areas to streamline are difficult to see, keep re-examining what has been documented in the process log.
    • Log the new process innovations.Embrace the new processes and apply them throughout the organization with the committed support of top management.
    • This can be the most challenging step and requires a change management campaign.
    • A change management campaign is the internal communication campaign that is targeted at a venture's employees regarding a shift in the way a business is managed.
  • Peronism

    • Workers’ recreation centers were constructed all over the country , including a vast resort in the lower Sierras de Cordoba that included eight hotels, riding stables, swimming pools, movie theaters, and scores of cabins.
    • During the 1951 presidential campaign, Evita replaced Juan Peron’s ailing running mate, Hortensio Quijano, to become the official candidate for vice president.
  • The West and the Civil War

    • Western states and territories witnessed major military campaigns by Confederate and Union forces.
    • The western theater witnessed several important campaigns.
    • The Union began campaigns in the western theater by securing Kentucky in June 1861.
    • Grant’s forces moved to an encampment at Pittsburg Landing near a small log church named "Shiloh" following the successful campaign at Fort Donelson.
    • Significant campaigns include the Sioux Wars in Minnesota (1862) and campaigns against the Navajo in Arizona (1864).
  • The Environment

    • He would later reverse his position on that specific campaign pledge in March of 2001 in a letter to Nebraska senator Chuck Hagel, stating that carbon dioxide was not considered a pollutant under the Clean Air Act, and that restricting carbon dioxide emissions would lead to higher energy prices.
    • In late November of 2002, the Bush Administration released proposed rule changes that would lead to increased logging of federal forests for commercial or recreational activities.
  • Free Enterprise Economics and Reaganomics

    • In his 1980 campaign speeches, Reagan presented his economic proposals as merely a return to the free-enterprise principles that had been in favor before the Great Depression.
    • Pollution control was enforced less strictly by the Environmental Protection Agency, and restrictions on logging and drilling for oil on public lands were relaxed.
    • An increase in defense spending coupled with $3.6 billion in tax relief for the 162,000 American families with incomes of $200,000 or more made a balanced budget, one of the president’s campaign promises in 1980, impossible to achieve.
  • The First Crusade

    • The first object of their campaign was Nicaea, previously a city under Byzantine rule, but which had become the capital of the Seljuq Sultanate of Rum under Kilij Arslan I.
    • Arslan was away campaigning against the Danishmends in central Anatolia at the time, and had left behind his treasury and his family, underestimating the strength of these new Crusaders.
    • To break the city, Alexios had the Crusaders' ships rolled over land on logs, and at the sight of them the Turkish garrison finally surrendered, 18 June 18.
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