The issue of slavery split the party. "Conscience Whigs" in the North favored the abolition of slavery and halting the institution's spread into new territories. The "Cotton Whigs" in the South took the opposite viewpoints. Following Scott's poor showing in 1852, the southerners moved to the Democratic Party and the northerners to the newly formed Republican Party.
The Whig party was founded in 1830, only to dissolve shortly after in 1860. The party was formed in opposition to Andrew Jackson and his Democratic Party.
No party replaced the Federalists in the sense that no party actually took the claims of Federalists and advocated them after the party fell. However, the next party to challenge the Democratic-Republicans was the WHIG PARTY.
Fillmore was a Whig. He was the last of four Whig presidents.
The Whig party stood for liberalism, economic nationalism, agrarianism, and pro-federalism. Four of the US Presidents were of the Whig Party.
The Republican Party.
Whig
Whig Party - United States - ended in 1856.
Members of the Whig Party were divided on the subject of slavery. This led to the end of the party in the middle of the 19th century.
What did the Democratic Party and the Whig party have in common
Modern Whig Party was created in 2009.
The Whig party. (Not the wig party! The Whig party!) ~Guardiavoir
The party that was formed was called the Whig Party.
The new party was the Republican party. It attacted most of the anti-slavery wing of the Whig Party, which eventually came to an end.
Florida Whig Party was created in 2006.
Whig party died
The whig party
In the election of 1852 the Whig Party began to be destroyed. The party was divided on whether or not to allow slavery in the new territories.
No, a Whig is not a Democrat. The Whig Party was a political party in the United States that existed in the mid-19th century. It was generally more conservative than the Democratic Party of that time.