The United States has long conceived of itself as a ... Much of this early success was due to the demise of the Whig Party, weakened by internal dissent over national issues like slavery.

He read from the Constitution of the United States the clause relating to the ... WEBSTER and all the great leaders of the old Whig Party, and expressed his astonishment that any old Whig could ...

In early 1854, the Kansas-Nebraska Act — a bill that ended a 30-year compromise barring the expansion of slavery in the ...

The Whig Party formed out of the National Republican Party, the leaders of which were John Quincy Adams and Henry Clay. They were nationalists, supported internal improvements and moral reforms ...

The political party – the Whigs. The Whigs coalesced into a political ... William Henry Harrison became the ninth President of the United States. On Inauguration Day, Harrison refused to wear an ...