The whigs from the North were known as Conscience Whigs and those of the South were known as Cotton Whigs. The ones in the north opposed slavery except for the factory owners, which liked slavery die to the cheap cotton. the Southern Whigs supported slavery and wished to expand it into the territories.
Alabama is known as the "Cotton State"
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wheat and cotton
The blockade
It prevented the South from selling its cotton to Europe; specially Great Britain.
Conscience Whigs were a faction within the Whig Party in the US that opposed slavery on moral grounds. Cotton Whigs, on the other hand, were Whigs who supported slavery and were more concerned with economic interests related to the cotton industry.
Opposed slavery
Northern Whigs became Republicans, Southern Whigs became Democrats
northern whigs
northern whigs and free soldiers
The issue of slavery split the party. "Conscience Whigs" in the North favored the abolition of slavery and halting the institution's spread into new territories. The "Cotton Whigs" in the South took the opposite viewpoints. Following Scott's poor showing in 1852, the southerners moved to the Democratic Party and the northerners to the newly formed Republican Party. There is a link below.
Whigs
Economic development would get rid of the need for slavery
Economic development would get rid of the need for slavery (APEX)
Economic development would get rid of the need for slavery (APEX)
Whigs, Democratic's, and some northern Democrats.
the whigs and democrats embraced the idea of popular sovereignty