Whig Party (1 St 1 Jan 1833 Jahr – 1 Jan 1854 Jahr)

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The Whigs emerged in the 1830s in opposition to President Andrew Jackson, pulling together former members of the National Republican Party, the Anti-Masonic Party, and disaffected Democrats. The Whigs favored an activist economic program known as the American System, which called for a protective tariff, federal subsidies for the construction of infrastructure, and support for a national bank (a strong central gov.) Dissolvement after disagreement on slavery from Kansas-Nebraska Act rulings.

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