Challenge: Keep the Whig Party Alive and Strong

The Whig Party IOTL fell apart because of infighting due to the issue of slavery, with a POD not before 1830, make the Whig Party last well into the 21st century as a major party.
 
Nat Turner is struck down by lightning a few months before his planned slave revolt. As a result a gradual manumission bill is passed in Virginia which becomes an example for rest of the Upper South. With slavery less of a vital issue, after the Mexican American War the Wilmot Provisio is passed with both Northern and Upper South support. By 1850 slavery is thriving only in South Carolina, Georgia, Florida, Mississppi, Alabema, Louisiana, and Texas. As a result in the 1860s a national abolition bill is passed in Congress under a Whig President. Eventually the Whigs fill the role of the Republicans in American politics.
 
Should have made clear you meant an American whig party here, if someone else hadn't already replied I would have posted something quite different
 
Nat Turner is struck down by lightning a few months before his planned slave revolt. As a result a gradual manumission bill is passed in Virginia which becomes an example for rest of the Upper South. With slavery less of a vital issue, after the Mexican American War the Wilmot Provisio is passed with both Northern and Upper South support. By 1850 slavery is thriving only in South Carolina, Georgia, Florida, Mississppi, Alabema, Louisiana, and Texas. As a result in the 1860s a national abolition bill is passed in Congress under a Whig President. Eventually the Whigs fill the role of the Republicans in American politics.

A PoD that relies on lightning?
 
Whig party seemed to die with Harrison. Had he lived out his term, you could probably keep it around awhile longer.

Of course any party with Henry Clay as it's most prominent member is probably doomed to failure. :p
 
A PoD that relies on lightning?

Anything that incapacitates him would work. It wouldn't matter if he died, was paralyzed from neck down or made suffered severe brain damage and had the intelligence of a five year old and it sure doesn't matter how it comes about. In none of these cases can Nat Turner start a revolt against anybody.
 
Anything that incapacitates him would work. It wouldn't matter if he died, was paralyzed from neck down or made suffered severe brain damage and had the intelligence of a five year old and it sure doesn't matter how it comes about. In none of these cases can Nat Turner start a revolt against anybody.
I think it would be more likely to have him die from a disease as an infant. Those were fairly common then.
 
Sometime in the second half of the 19th century the Whig Party in the United States becomes the Liberal Party. I don't see the name Whig surviving.
 

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Nat Turner is struck down by lightning a few months before his planned slave revolt. As a result a gradual manumission bill is passed in Virginia which becomes an example for rest of the Upper South. With slavery less of a vital issue, after the Mexican American War the Wilmot Provisio is passed with both Northern and Upper South support. By 1850 slavery is thriving only in South Carolina, Georgia, Florida, Mississppi, Alabema, Louisiana, and Texas. As a result in the 1860s a national abolition bill is passed in Congress under a Whig President. Eventually the Whigs fill the role of the Republicans in American politics.

Ah yes, Nat Turner, history's greatest villain. :rolleyes:
 
Ah yes, Nat Turner, history's greatest villain. :rolleyes:

He wasn't a villian but the rebelion had some unfortunate effects. As it turned out he probably cost the abolition movement a considerable amount of support. The reasons for the revolt were justified but that doesn't mean the result wasn't bad.
 
Were there any anti- slavery Democrats around? :confused: If so, we can have one of them get elected, and the Democrats simply implode as the Whig Party in TTL.
 
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