It was a pleasure to have dinner the other night with Governor Justin Trudeau of the Great State of Canada,” President Donald ...

The conservatives formed the Liberty Party and sought to end slavery gradually through traditional, political channels. 1844: Whigs: Henry Clay The Whigs were unanimous in their nomination of ...

(See also Whigg and Whiggamore Raid)* Whig (British political party), one of two political parties in England and the United Kingdom from the 17th to 19th centuries* Radical Whigs, a faction of ...

The Tories were staunch royalists while the Whigs were determined to limit the power of the monarchy. In 1859 the Liberal Party was formed as political opposition to the Conservatives. This makes the ...

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

J. Scott Applewhite The Associated Press Is the Democrat Party going in the same direction that the Whig Party went in 1856? Since 2009, the Democrats have lost more than 900 seats in state ...

The nation faced growing conflict over slavery and westward expansion, which led to dissent within the two major political parties, the Democrats and the Whigs. Nativist cartoons from the 1840s ...

Due to his military career, William Henry Harrison became the frontrunner of the Whig Party—a new political faction assembled by opposition to Jackson. Despite his aristocratic Virginian roots, the ...

Fillmore's position on the Compromise, particularly the Fugitive Slave Act, alienated the anti-slavery wing of the party and he was left to split the conservative Whig vote with Webster ...