Whig Party (United States)
The Whig Party was one of the two major parties in the United States during the late 1830s, the 1840s, and the early 1850s. The party 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. Whigs favored an activist economic program known as the...