USA HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -To limit these presidential excesses, they favored Congress and its legislative power over presidential decrees. Whigs generally supported higher tariffs, distributing land revenues to states and passing relief legislation in response to the financial panics of 1837 and 1839.

Detailed explanation-2: -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-3: -The Whig base of support was centered among entrepreneurs, professionals, planters, social reformers, devout Protestants, particularly evangelicals, and the emerging urban middle class. It had much less backing from poor farmers and unskilled workers.

Detailed explanation-4: -Whig Party: favored weak president and strong congress, named after a monarch from Britain to prove Jackson ruled like a monarch, lost in 1836 election but won in 1840 with William Henry Harrison.

Detailed explanation-5: -The Whig Party believed in a strong federal government, similar to the Federalist Party that preceded it. The federal government must provide its citizenry with a transportation infrastructure to assist economic development. Many Whigs also called for government support of business through tariffs.