JACKSONIAN DEMOCRACY 1825 1850
JACKSONIAN AMERICA
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Whig Party
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Democratic Party
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Jacksonian Democracy
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Franchise
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Detailed explanation-1: -The Whig Party was a political party formed in 1834 by opponents of President Andrew Jackson and his Jacksonian Democrats.
Detailed explanation-2: -Southern slaveholders, who opposed Jackson’s support of the Tariff of 1828, supported the Whig Party. Abolitionists despised Jackson because he was a slave-owner and advocated slavery’s expansion into new United States territories.
Detailed explanation-3: -An American political party formed in the 1830s to oppose President Andrew Jackson and the Democrats. Whigs stood for protective tariffs, national banking, and federal aid for internal improvements.
Detailed explanation-4: -The Whigs merged into the Liberal Party with the Peelites and Radicals in the 1850s. Many Whigs left the Liberal Party in 1886 to form the Liberal Unionist Party, which merged into the Conservative Party in 1912.