Question

Which of these is an issue in economic policy that the Whigs and Democrats disagreed about?

A. What prices farmers and plantation owners should charge for crops

B. What foreign countries needed to do to buy American products

C. How the supply of goods and services would be determined

D. How government should be involved in the economy

Answer 1

D. How government should be involved in the economy.

Whigs believed the government should have a lot of involvement in the economy (pro-business policy, Henry Clay's American System)

Democrats believed in lassiez faire(government hands-off approach for economy). Jackson was also president and vetoed the rechartering of the Second National Bank