Definition of turnbuckle. : a device that usually consists of a link with screw threads at both ends, that is turned to bring the ends closer together, and that is used for tightening a rod or stay.
Such splintering had not yet led to formal party organization, but later the faction led by Andrew Jackson would evolve into the Democratic Party, while the factions led by John Quincy Adams and Henry Clay would become the National Republican Party and later the Whig Party.
Both Hamilton and Gallatin were unsuccessful in having their plans implemented. A third political leader, Henry Clay of Kentucky, was more successful with his âAmerican System.â. Henry Clay was one of the greatest Americans of the nineteenth century.