The Whigs were a party made up of a diverse group brought together by their distaste of “King Andrew” Jackson, the current president. While the Whigs started out centered around the National Republican party, remnants of other parties such as the anti-masonic and democratic parties also joined the ranks of John Quincy Adams, Henry Clay, and Daniel Webster as supporters of the Whig party. These party members joined because they felt that they had in some way been alienated by Jackson’s stand on state’s rights and opposition to the national bank. By 1836, 28 of the forty Democratic Congressmen who voted in favor of rechartering the National bank had converted to the Whig party. The Whigs drew the support of native-born and British-American Protestants,
