How much the government should be involved in the economy
Northern Whigs became Republicans, Southern Whigs became Democrats
The Whigs became the Liberals which eventually merged with the SDP to become the modern Liberal Democrats
The Whigs, Copperheads, and Populists were all parties that collapsed. The Democrats were the only original party to last as new parties formed.
The Republican Party.
The Free-Soil Party wanted to allow slavery in the new territories.
The two-party system.
Both the Whigs and the Democrats had been in one party, the Democratic-Republicans. The Democrats were champions of states' rights, and was basically the same party as it is today. The Whigs wanted a strong federal government, and began as the opposition to Jackson, but ended when the party split into additional factions.
The two party system-APEX
The two-party system-apex
The Whigs and Democrats avoided and evaded the issue of slavery in the election of 1848 by splitting down the middle on who was for and who was against slavery. Whigs and Democrats in the South wanted to keep slavery. Whigs and Democrats in the North wanted to abolish slavery.
the whigs and democrats embraced the idea of popular sovereignty
the whigs and democrats embraced the idea of popular sovereignty
the whigs and democrats embraced the idea of popular sovereignty
Whigs and the Democrats
the whigs and democrats embraced the idea of popular sovereignty
The Whigs and Democrats embraced the idea of popular sovereignty.
the whigs and democrats embraced the idea of popular sovereignty