The National Museum of American History has approximately 3 million objects in its collections, and about 5â8% of the collection is on view at any one time.
A: In the Revolutionary War, the two opposing parties were the Whigs, who believed in separating from England, and the Tories, who believed that Americans should not break away from England. The Tories were also referred to as the Loyalists and the Whigs were also referred to as the Revolutionaries.
The rise of the Democracy and Jacksonâstumultuous presidency sparked the cre-ation in the mid-1830s of a second na-tional partyâthe Whigs .2. Although a heterogeneous group initially,the Whigs gradually elaborated a distinctvisionâa political world dominated bymen of ability and wealth, chosen by tal-ent, not birth.