USA HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -Alarmed, anti-slavery Whigs spun off to found the Republican Party in 1854, eroding the party’s base of power.

Detailed explanation-2: -Between the 1680s and the 1850s, the Whigs contested power with their rivals, the Tories. 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.

Detailed explanation-3: -The Whigs emerged in the 1830s in opposition to President Andrew Jackson, pulling together former members of the National Republican Party, the Anti-Masonic Party, and disaffected Democrats.

Detailed explanation-4: -The rise of the second party system Some Whigs especially feared that Jackson, as a former general, would use the military to consolidate his power. The Whigs would continue to believe that the legislature should have the most power in government, while the Democrats would continue to support a strong executive.

Detailed explanation-5: -The Whigs, a coalition united by their hatred of Jackson and his “usurpations” of congressional and judicial authority, took their name from the seventeenth century English Whigs who had defended English liberties against the pro-Catholic Stuart Kings.