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| | The Whig Party (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21) |
 | | The Whig Party, in the United States, was for most of its history concerned with promoting internal improvements, such as roads, canals, railroads, deepening of rivers, etc. This was of interest to many Westerners in this period, isolated as they were and in need of markets. |
 | | In the 1850s when the nation became increasingly divided over slavery, a new Republican party formed, primarily to keep slavery quarantined off in the South, while Southern sentiment was for their right to move, with their way of life, into any new territory. |
 | | This party was strong in urban areas, which had also been a Whig stronghold. |
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