Whig Party Dbq

I believe if George Washington could see how our country is ran today he would be shaking his head and just thinking to himself “I warned these people not to start political parties.” When James Monroe was in office the republican party began to crumble. After his victory in the 1816 election he wanted to follow in the footsteps of George Washington in his farewell address. One step that he copied was he appointed rivals John C. Calhoun and John Quincy Adams to his cabinet. Monroe refused to use federal patronage to help the Republican Party, he also mentioned that he believed congress not the President should best represent the public and there for should state the policies. And due to the lack of a strong leader led to a broken republican

The name “Whig party” is also known as the English antimonarchist party. In reality the Whig Party was only founded in response to the Jacksonian War on the Second Bank of the United States. The people who founded the Whig party had a sever disagreement with how Jacksons presidency was going and on how he just seemed to do what he wanted and ignored the rulings of the supreme court and simply had no regard for the lives of the Native Americans. That is originally how the party came together but they stayed together due to their thirst for power in the white house. The Whigs valued was the authority of Congress over the power of the President. The Whigs however never formed a true party. In the election of 1836 the Whigs had three presidential candidates which were Daniel Webster, William Henry Harrison, and Hugh L. White. Eventually the successor of the three was William Henry Harrison with him winning people over with his log cabin campaign. When the Whigs captured both the white house and congress in 1840 with Harrison in office the future looked bright and Whigs looked poised to become the most dominant party. However, Harrison died a month into his tenure, and his successor John Tyler vetoed major Whig moves so the recreation of the Bank of the United States did not happen because of this. To make things worse the Whig party began to split over some Whigs being proslavery and others against slavery. And by 1854 most Whigs in the north had joined the newly formed Republican Party including Abraham Lincoln and so the party dissipated. The democratic party, which is separate from the democratic-republican party, was truly all started with the drive and will of one man, Andrew Jackson who held the office from 1829-1837. But if not for many other Americans at the time likening and agreeing with