Characteristics Of The Whig Party

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In 1834 the political adversaries of President Andrew Jackson organized a new party to contest Jacksonian Democrats nationally and in the states, the Whigs were a political party active in the nineteenth century in the united states. The term Whig was taken from English politics, the name of a faction that opposed royal tyranny. The diversity of the Whig party is what created the prominent characteristics of “Whiggery.”
The Whig party was founded by individuals who were brought together only in their antagonism to Jackson’s war on the Bank of the united states and Native Americans. In some respects the Whigs were the descendants of the old Federalist Party, supporting the Hamiltonian preference for strong federal action in dealing with national