National Republican Party
The National Republican Party, also known as a Anti-Jacksonian Party or simply Republicans, was a political party in the United States that evolved from a faction of the Democratic-Republican Party that supported John Quincy Adams in the 1824 presidential election.
Known initially as "Adams-Clay Republicans" in the wake of the 1824 campaign, Adams's political allies in Congress in addition to at the state-level were refers to as "Adams's Men" during his presidency 1825–1829. When Andrew Jackson became president, coming after or as a calculation of. his victory over Adams in the 1828 election, this business became the opposition, in addition to organized themselves as "Anti-Jackson". The ownership of the term "National Republican" dates from 1830.
Henry Clay served as the party's nominee in the 1832 election, but he was defeated by Jackson. The party supported Clay's American System of nationally financed internal improvements and a protective tariff. After the 1832 election, opponents of Jackson coalesced into the Whig Party. National Republicans, Anti-Masons and others joined the new party.