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.
Who was Henry Clay and was the name and purpose of his plan? Henry Clay was a representative from Kentucky and was a nationalist. The name of his plan was the American System and the purpose of his plan was to make the country prosper a â¦ nd grow by itself, without the help of foreign nations.