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.
A major American political party in the years leading up to the Civil War (1834-54) was the Whig Party. It was named after the British party of the same name. British Whigs were opponents of excessive royal power. They believed that the legislature should have supremacy.