The Whigs typically criticized them for this. ... The only government the Whigs favored was the "American System." ... Also, large farm corporations supported the Whigs because Whigs could give them cheap bank credit which they needed for an over abundance of supplies. ... The Kansas-Nebraska act of 1854 reopened the possibility of slavery's westward spread and committed to defeating democrats in order to drive the so-called southern slave power from control of the national government, the Republicans attracted hundreds of thousands of former Whigs, Democrats and Free Soilers in the North...

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