Question

What are some of the geographic factors that contributed to the division of the Whig party?

Answer 1

The Whigs collapsed following the passage of the Kansas–Nebraska Act in 1854, with most Northern Whigs eventually joining the anti-slavery Republican Party and most Southern Whigs joining the nativist American Party and later the Constitutional Union Party.

Democrats supported a "hands-off" attitude of the government and economy. Whigs wanted a moral America by supporting economic regulation and tended to view society as a hierarchy of social classes, but believed anyone could move upward in society.

Answer 2

The Whigs were a loose coalition of diverse political interests—Anti-Masons, National Republicans, disillusioned Democrats—united by a shared hatred of President Andrew Jackson. To the Whigs, Jackson was “King Andrew the First,” a despot who usurped power from Congress to serve his own populist

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