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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.
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Which state is known as the Cotton State.?
Alabama is known as the "Cotton State"
Why were many northern abolitionists against how cotton was produced in the south?
KSAOKXA
What were the major cash crops in the northern colonies in the 1700's?
wheat and cotton
What was The effective northern effort to strangle the southern economy and de-throne king cotton?
The blockade
What did the northern blockade on the south do?
It prevented the South from selling its cotton to Europe; specially Great Britain.
What is the difference between Conscience and Cotton Whigs?
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.
Conscience Whigs were Northern Whigs Who?
Opposed slavery
Why did the whig party expel president tyler from their political party?
Northern Whigs became Republicans, Southern Whigs became Democrats
By 1856 the Republican Party included in its membership people who were?
northern whigs
The republican party was formed mostly by?
northern whigs and free soldiers
Why did the Whig party split into cotton whigs and conscience whigs?
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.
Which political party dominated politics in the northern U. S. from the election of Abraham Lincoln until the election of FDR in 1932?
Whigs
What was an argument of northern whigs?
Economic development would get rid of the need for slavery
What was an argument of the Northern Whigs?
Economic development would get rid of the need for slavery (APEX)
What was the argument of northern Whigs?
Economic development would get rid of the need for slavery (APEX)
What parties that made up the new republican party?
Whigs, Democratic's, and some northern Democrats.
Who emerged in the 1850s as an antislavery party and consisted of former Northern Whigs and antislavery Democrats?
the whigs and democrats embraced the idea of popular sovereignty
