APUSH Democrats vs Whigs

Agrarian vision of the United States economy

Democrats

Believes federal government should stay out of economic affairs and social issues

Democrats

Supported immigrants... in particular catholic irish factory workers

Democrats

Anti-Masonic support

Whigs

wanted small national government/strict constructionist

Democrats

Wanted universal male-suffrage and fought for labor rights

Democrats

Wanted a strong central government/ loose constructionist

Whigs

Supported industrialism

Whigs

They favored use of government to reforms in society

Whigs

They settled strongly in the south and west as farmers

Democrats

Supported by upper and middle classes and reformers

Whigs

Supported clays American system

Whigs

Tended to support public schooling and moral reform movements

Whigs

Supported business owners and wanted to protect business interest

Whigs

They settled and where most strong in New england

Whigs

Large New England merchants/ industrialists, commercial class in the west, southerners supporting industrial growth, Protestants. Etc

Whigs

Had national political parties that appealed to multiple u.s sections

Both

Champion of the common man

Both

Promoted western expansion/ developments

Both

They attracted more of the upper and middle classes

Whigs

They promoted using federal funds to develop infrastructure in the west

Whigs

Attracted free blacks to their membership

Whigs

It was the party of William Henry Harrison

Whigs

They wished to restore the freedom of the individual

Democrats

They won the presidency in 1832

Democrats