Where does the name of the Whig Party come from?

Question

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Answer 1

The term whig was coined when an insurgency of the Scottish Presbyterians known as Covenanters marched from the south west of Scotland on Edinburgh in 1648, with the country folk using the word "whiggam" to urge on their horses. As a result, the episode became known as the "Whiggamore Raid" and the terms Whiggamore and Whig were subsequently used as nicknames for the radical Kirk Party faction.[2] During the Exclusion Bill crisis of 1678-1681 the nickname was then given in England to the loose political grouping of the British Whig Party.

Answer 2

If this is about the short-lived American Whig party, they borrowed the name, but not the conservative policy of the English Whigs. It was more a states rights group.