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United States (United States) (search for this): entry caucus
Caucus, A word in the vocabulary of the politics of the United States; probably a corruption of the word calkers— men who drive oakum or old ropes untwisted into the seams of vessels. These men naturally associated much with ropemakers in seaports. In Boston they had formed an association of which the father of Samuel Adams, and Samuel Adams himself afterwards, were members. After the Boston Massacre, this society at their meetings, in speeches and resolutions, took strong grounds again. After the Boston Massacre, this society at their meetings, in speeches and resolutions, took strong grounds against the British government, its acts, and its instruments in America, and planned schemes for relieving their country of oppression. The Tories, in derision, called these assemblies calkers' meetings, which became corrupted to caucus meetings —gatherings at which politicians of the same creed meet, consult, and lay plans for political action. See nominating conventions, Natio
Boston (Massachusetts, United States) (search for this): entry caucus
Caucus, A word in the vocabulary of the politics of the United States; probably a corruption of the word calkers— men who drive oakum or old ropes untwisted into the seams of vessels. These men naturally associated much with ropemakers in seaports. In Boston they had formed an association of which the father of Samuel Adams, and Samuel Adams himself afterwards, were members. After the Boston Massacre, this society at their meetings, in speeches and resolutions, took strong grounds against the British government, its acts, and its instruments in America, and planned schemes for relieving their country of oppression. The Tories, in derision, called these assemblies calkers' meetings, which became corrupted to caucus meetings —gatherings at which politicians of the same creed meet, consult, and lay plans for political action. See nominating conventions, Natio
Samuel Adams (search for this): entry caucus
probably a corruption of the word calkers— men who drive oakum or old ropes untwisted into the seams of vessels. These men naturally associated much with ropemakers in seaports. In Boston they had formed an association of which the father of Samuel Adams, and Samuel Adams himself afterwards, were members. After the Boston Massacre, this society at their meetings, in speeches and resolutions, took strong grounds against the British government, its acts, and its instruments in America, and planSamuel Adams himself afterwards, were members. After the Boston Massacre, this society at their meetings, in speeches and resolutions, took strong grounds against the British government, its acts, and its instruments in America, and planned schemes for relieving their country of oppression. The Tories, in derision, called these assemblies calkers' meetings, which became corrupted to caucus meetings —gatherings at which politicians of the same creed meet, consult, and lay plans for political action. See nominating conventions, Natio