Table of Contents
- 1 Who was the first and only president to be elected without being affiliated with a political party?
- 2 How did the views of Jackson and John Marshall differ regarding the status and rights of Indian peoples?
- 3 Why do children talk about politics when left home?
- 4 Who are the politicians’ daughters who have protested against their parents?
Who was the first and only president to be elected without being affiliated with a political party?
Millard Fillmore, a member of the Whig party, was the 13th President of the United States (1850-1853) and the last President not to be affiliated with either the Democratic or Republican parties.
How did the views of Jackson and John Marshall differ regarding the status and rights of Indian peoples?
Jackson was fixed on removing the Indians from their ancestral lands while Marshall didn’t approve of it at first but later felt that he should join the Native American cause because of Georgia’s extension of state law over Cherokees.
Who ran against Andrew Jackson?
1828 United States presidential election
| Nominee | Andrew Jackson | John Quincy Adams |
| Party | Democratic | National Republican |
| Home state | Tennessee | Massachusetts |
| Running mate | John C. Calhoun | Richard Rush |
| Electoral vote | 178 | 83 |
Do parents’ political beliefs influence children’s political views?
A study recently published in the British Journal of Political Science, based on data from the U.S. and U.K., found that parents who are insistent that their children adopt their political views inadvertently influence their children to abandon the belief once they become adults.
Why do children talk about politics when left home?
The mechanism is perhaps surprising: Children who come from homes where politics is a frequent topic of discussion are more likely to talk about politics once they leave home, exposing them to new viewpoints—which they then adopt with surprising frequency.
Who are the politicians’ daughters who have protested against their parents?
In a year of protest and elections, Ms. Regan is far from the only politician’s daughter staging some form of political revolt against her own parents. In May, Mayor Bill de Blasio’s daughter, Chiara, 25, was arrested as part of a Black Lives Matter protest in New York City.
Do children of conservative families change their political views?
One study, using data that followed a group of Americans who were high school seniors in 1965, found that the children of conservative families are more likely to change their political views after leaving the home than the children of progressives.