The Republican Party was a manifestation of pro-abolition segments of American society coming together after the failure of the Whig Party. The pro-slavery elements of American society were always associated with the Democratic Party, first as followers of Jeffersons' Republican-Democrat Party and then as Democrats after Andrew Jackson and Martin van Buren re-organized the party as a pro-slavery party after the English abolished slavery in England in 1834, and the National Republican supporters of John Quincy Adams and Henry Clay took the name of Whigs to show their support of abolition by taking the name of the party in England that accomplished abolition of slavery in English government.