When.com Web Search

Search results

  1. Results From The WOW.Com Content Network
  2. Whig Party (United States) - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whig_Party_(United_States)

    Charles Sumner, an anti-slavery "Conscience Whig" who later joined the Republican Party Edward Everett, a pro-South "Cotton Whig" Henry Clay of Kentucky was the party's congressional leader from the time of its formation in 1833 until his resignation from the Senate in 1842, and he remained an important Whig leader until his death in 1852. [183]

  3. History of the United States Whig Party - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_the_United...

    Henry Clay, a founder of the Whig Party who served as the 1844 Whig presidential nominee. In the years following the 1824 election, the Democratic-Republican Party split into two groups. Supporters of President Adams and Clay joined with many former Federalists such as Daniel Webster to form a group informally known as the "Adams party". [6]

  4. The origins of American political parties: a crash course

    www.aol.com/news/2016-08-02-the-origins-of...

    Out of the Whig Party came the Republican Party, which was the party of Abraham Lincoln and took a stand against slavery. The Southern Confederacy's loss in the Civil War weakened the Democrats.

  5. Political career of Abraham Lincoln (1849–1861) - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Political_career_of_Abraham...

    After serving a single term in the U. S. House, Lincoln returned to Springfield, Illinois, where he worked as a lawyer. He initially remained a committed member of the Whig Party, but he joined the newly formed Republican Party after the Whigs collapsed in the wake of the 1854 Kansas–Nebraska Act.

  6. Henry Clay - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Clay

    During Jackson's second term, opponents of the president including Clay, Webster, and William Henry Harrison created the Whig Party, and through the years, Clay became a leading congressional Whig. Clay sought the presidency in the 1840 election but was passed over at the Whig National Convention in favor of Harrison.

  7. Free Soil Party - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Free_Soil_Party

    The Free Soil Party, also called the Free Democratic Party or the Free Democracy, [3] was a political party in the United States from 1848 to 1854, when it merged into the Republican Party. The party was focused on opposing the expansion of slavery into the western territories of the United States .

  8. 1840 United States presidential election - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1840_United_States...

    Many leaders began to move to the Whig party. Remaining leaders met in September 1837 in Washington, and agreed to maintain the party. The third Anti-Masonic Party National Convention was held in Philadelphia on November 13–14, 1838. By this time, the party had been almost entirely supplanted by the Whigs.

  9. AOL Mail

    mail.aol.com

    Get AOL Mail for FREE! Manage your email like never before with travel, photo & document views. Personalize your inbox with themes & tabs. You've Got Mail!