... to the Jacksonians, all of human history had involved a struggle between the few and the many, instigated by a greedy minority of wealth and privilege that hoped to exploit the vast majority. And this struggle, they declared, lay behind the major problems of the day, as the "associated wealth" of America sought to augment its domination. The people's best weapons ... to keep the United States a democracy free from the slavery question "condemning abolitionists as fomenters of rebellion, curtailing abolitionist mail campaigns, enforcing the congressional gag rule that squelched debate on...

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... this time the Whig Party came together, their main purpose was to not let Van Buren in office. They saw Van Buren as another Jackson and they despised his kingly rule. The Whigs were too unorganized to have their own convention so they came up with the idea or running three candidates against Van Buren. The Whigs nominated Daniel Webster of ... Massachusetts from the East, Hugh White a Tennessee Senator, and Ohio's William Henry Harrison from the West (1836 Presidential Election Results). Even with three candidates running Van Buren still got the majority of the Electoral College, and b...

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• Grade Level: High School