because they don't like to get dirty with the pigs
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 Republican Party
They showed The split in the Democratic Party.
The election of 1912 created a split within the Republican party with the formation of the Progressive party.
Splinter parties are parties that have broken away or split from another, usually large, party.
The Republican Party.
Which issue below played a major role in the Democratic Party split
splinter party
The Payne-Aldrich Tariff Act split the Republican party into the Progressives and the Old Guard. The split caused a loss in the next election.
The Republican party has never split. In 1912, Theodore Roosevelt, broke from the Republicans ,formed his own party and ran against the Republican president.
The Bull Moose party who ran TR.
The Constitutional Union Party was formed after the Whig Party split and the Know Nothing Movement fell apart. Before the new party formed, it was also known as the American Party.