When Andrew Jackson won the 1828 presidential election, his victory also set into motion a political shift that would result ...

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.

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 ... William Henry Harrison became the ninth President of the United States. On Inauguration Day, Harrison refused to wear an overcoat and hat despite it being ...

Millard Fillmore, who assumed the presidency in 1850 upon the death of Zachary Taylor, was the last president from the Whig party. Fillmore sought reelection in 1852, but the Whig ...