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The Kansas-Nebraska Act is said to be the cause of the Whig Party to dissolve. The Whigs had previously united the battling interest groups in the North and the South. Southern Democrats and Northern Democrats also split apart. As many southerners and northerners could no longer use the Whigs as a uniting party, the Whigs fell apart.
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∙ 10y agoThe party was split between pro-slavery and anti-slavery therefore causing the party to die out.
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Which U.S. political party broke up as a consequence of the compromise of 1850?
The whig party
What was milliard fillmore's political party?
He was the last president who was neither; he was a Whig.
What party did Daniel Webster and Henry Clay lead?
They were members of the Whig party. Henry Clay formed the Whig party from a mix of groups, including National Republicans.
What is true of the second party system?
It pitted the Democratic party against the Whig party.
What was the name of the new political party that Abraham Lincoln joined which was formed to block the spread of slavery?
The new party was the Republican party. It attacted most of the anti-slavery wing of the Whig Party, which eventually came to an end.
Split the whig party and caused the entire cabinet except Webster to resign?
Tyler's refusal to carry out his own Whig party's policies
What did the Democratic Party and the whig party have in common?
What did the Democratic Party and the Whig party have in common
When was True Whig Party created?
Modern Whig Party was created in 2009.
What caused the formation's of the Whig party?
the veto by Andrew Jackson of the bill renewing the national bank
What political party was originally a 3rd party?
The Whig party. (Not the wig party! The Whig party!) ~Guardiavoir
What party formed to protest king Andrew?
The party that was formed was called the Whig Party.
What caused the Whig party to gain strength during Van Biden's presidency?
A serious economic crisis
When was Florida Whig Party created?
Florida Whig Party was created in 2006.
Why did the republican party grow as the whig party and know nothings party declined in the 1850s?
Whig party died
Which U.S. political party broke up as a consequence of the compromise of 1850?
The whig party
What caused the Whig Party to gain strength during Martin van Buren's presidency?
A serious economic crisis
What caused the end of the US Whig party?
Most historians cite the passage of the Kansas - Nebraska Act to have caused the collapse of the US political party known as the Whigs. The Whigs split off into the Republican Party and the Know - Nothing Party.
