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Category: History & Society
Date:
1834 - 1854
Areas Of Involvement:
states’ rights
protective tariff
Related People:
Abraham Lincoln
Henry Clay
Daniel Webster
William Henry Harrison
John Tyler
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Whig Party, in U.S. history, major political party active in the period 1834–54 that espoused a program of national development but foundered on the rising tide of sectional antagonism. The Whig Party was formally organized in 1834, bringing together a loose coalition of groups united in their opposition to what party members viewed as the executive tyranny of “King Andrew” Jackson. They borrowed the name Whig from the British party opposed to royal prerogatives. Jackson had shattered the National Republican Party with his victories in 1828 and 1832. His war against the Second Bank of the United States and his ...(100 of 556 words)

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