Definitions for "Whig Party"
a nineteenth-century political party; it was one of the two major parties until breaking up in the 1850s. Supported an active national government.
a former political party in the United States; formed in 1834 in opposition to the Democratic Party; advocated a loose interpretation of the Constitution and high protective tariffs
A political party generally against slavery and its expansion into the territories. The Whig party had basically been swallowed up by the Democrat and Republican parties by the time of the Civil War.
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