Whig Party:
initially seemed to offer a compelling answer to the problems of sectionalism by promising benefits to white
working men of the North, South, and West, while also uniting rural, small-town, and urban residents.
O embraced the issue of slavery and sought to unite Americans around spreading slavery into an expanding the
nation.
stressed Protestant culture and federal-sponsored internal improvements and courted the support of a variety
of reform movements, including temperance, nativism, and even antislavery, though few believed in racial
equality.
demanded the end of slavery in the District of Columbia, the end of the interstate slave trade, and the
prohibition of slavery's expansion into the West.