The Democratic and Whig Parties developed in response to the needs of competing economic and political constituencies.

为竞争经济和政治支持，“共民”两党随即进行发展。

He seemed unable to make the people understand his policies. The opposition Whig Party was happy over Van Buren's failures.

他似乎无法让人们理解他的政策，反对派辉格党对范布伦的种种尝试失败感到高兴。

This also effectively ended the Whig Party in the United States.

这也有效地终结了美国的辉格党。

The Whig Party at this time was divided over the issue of slavery.

此时的辉格党在奴隶制问题上存在分歧。

In 1836, the election came down to the Democratic Party versus the Whig Party.

1836 年，选举结果是民主党对辉格党。

The Whig Party had a presidential candidate by the name of William Henry Harrison.

辉格党有一位总统候选人，名叫威廉·亨利·哈里森。

However, four years later, Harrison once again won the Whig party nomination for president.

然而，四年后，哈里森再次获得辉格党总统提名。

By 1834, he became a leader of something known as the Whig Party.

到 1834 年，他成为辉格党的领袖。

As the election of eighteen forty drew closer, the Whig Party felt more and more hopeful that it could put its candidate in the White House.

随着1840年总统大选临近，辉格党越来越希望自己的候选人能入主白宫。

Now, the Whig Party was one of the two major political parties in the United States at this time.

现在，辉格党是当时美国两大政党之一。

On the fourth vote, all of Webster's supporters and many of Clay's supporters gave their votes to Taylor. He finally won the Whig Party's nomination for president.

在第四轮投票中，韦伯斯特的所有支持者和克莱的许多支持者都把选票投给了泰勒。他最终赢得辉格党总统候选人的提名。

The Whig Party asked Taylor to be their nominee for president in the election of 1848, and Taylor won that election, becoming president.

辉格党在 1848 年的选举中要求泰勒作为他们的总统候选人，泰勒赢得了那次选举，成为总统。

This was just nine days before the Whig party opened its national convention in Baltimore. Everybody was sure that the Whigs would choose Senator Henry Clay as their presidential candidate.

就在9天前，辉格党在巴尔的摩召开了全国代表大会。每个人都确信辉格党会选择参议员亨利·克莱作为总统候选人。

Clay's supporters in the cabinet did their best to get Tyler to sign the bank bills. When the president refused to do so, Whig Party leaders urged the cabinet to resign.

克莱在内阁中的支持者尽最大努力使他签署银行法案，当总统拒绝这样做时，辉格党领导人敦促内阁辞职。

So, the Whig party decided to nominate him for the presidency, even though no one knew anything about where he stood on the issues.

所以，辉格党决定提名他参加总统竞选，即使没人知道他站在议题的哪一端。

Both Clay and Van Buren opposed statehood for Texas. Clay said it would lead to war with Mexico. Van Buren agreed. As expected, Clay was chosen as the Whig Party's candidate for president.

克莱和范布伦都反对赋予德克萨斯州的地位，克莱说这将导致与墨西哥发生战争。范布伦表示同意。不出所料，克莱被选为辉格党总统候选人。

He then won a big victory in the general election over the candidate of the Whig Party, General Winfield Scott. One of Pierce's friends, the writer Nathaniel Hawthorne, helped him with his campaign.

随后，他在大选中战胜了辉格党候选人温菲尔德·斯科特将军。皮尔斯的一位朋友，作家纳撒尼尔·霍桑，在竞选中给予他帮助。

During the " campaign" (campaign), or the period leading up to the election, the Whig party said that Harrison was a simple man from a small town.

在“竞选” （campaign）期间， 或者说选举前的那段时间，辉格党说哈里森是一个来自小镇的简单人。

The Whig Party chose him as its vice presidential candidate in the election of eighteen forty-eight. He served as vice president for about a year and a half before the death of President Taylor.

1848年，辉格党在选举中挑选他作为副总统候选人。总统泰勒去世前，他担任副总统职务已有约一年半的时间。

Extremists on both sides opposed Clay's compromise proposals. So did President Taylor. The president had hoped that Webster, Clay, and other Whig Party leaders would support his own limited plan of statehood for California.

双方的极端分子都反对克莱提出的折衷法案，总统泰勒也持有相同的态度。总统曾希望韦伯斯特、克莱和辉格党其他领导人支持自己对加利福尼亚授予有限制条件的州制计划。