opposed Jackson got together and formed the Whig Party. The Whig’s objected to obsessive power of the executive branch under Andrew Jackson. William H. Harrison was a member of the Whig Party. He died in office after only one month and was succeeded by his Vice President, John Tyler. Tyler ignored the council of his cabinet and vetoed bills. The Whig congress members met and read Tyler out of the Party. This party broke up and formed the new Free-Soil Party who were abolitionist and the proslavery Cotton Whigs. Both Clay and Webster did during the campaign in the election of 1852. The Whig presidential candidate won only 42 electoral votes. The remnants moved to other parties. The Whig party broke up in 1854.The Liberty Party was the first political party in the United States to give attention to the question about slavery. The Liberty Party made a poor showing in the election of 1844.Then there was the formation of the Republican Party in 1854. There were considered a third party. They started a series of antislavery meetings in the Midwest in 1854. In 1856 John C. Fremont ran unsuccessfully. Then in 1860 Abraham Lincoln was elected President. He was the first Republican elected President. Many of the groups including the farmers, industrialists and merchants favored the policies of the Republican Party. Lincoln was responsible for the signing of the Emancipation Proclamation, which freed the slaves. The Republicans worked to pass the Thirteenth Amendment, which outlawed slavery and the Fourteenth Amendment, which guaranteed equal protection under the law and the Fifteenth Amendment, which helped secure voting rights for African Americans. The Republican Party was also responsible for the leading role in securing women the right to vote. The Republican Party was also the first party to favor woman’s suffrage in 1896. The Nineteenth Amendment was finally added to the Constitution by ratification of 26 ...
