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The Toleration Party (also known as the Toleration-Republican Party and later the American Party or American Toleration and Reform Party) was a political party active in Connecticut in the early 19th century. The ‘American’ name referred not to nativism or the later American Party but the fact that it viewed itself as a nationally-oriented party.The Federalist Party had been dominant in Connecticut holding a near-monopoly on power since its foundation.