Transcript Republican Party

THE UNION IN PERIL:
CAUSES OF THE CIVIL WAR
CHAPTER 10
Section 3
Birth of the Republican Party
Why were new political parties emerging
in the mid-1800’s?
1. Franklin __________was elected President in
1852.
2. James __________ was elected President in
1856.
3. Nativists were opposed to ____________.
4. The Republican party first ran a candidate for
president in _________ (1848, 1852, 1856,
1860)
5. Horace _________ was a newspaper editor
and helped to found the Republican Party.
MATCHING
a. 1848 b. 1852 c. 1856
d.1860
1. Winfield Scott ran for President in ____.
2. Franklin Pierce was elected President in ___
3. The Republican party first ran a candidate for
president in _________.
FILL IN THE BLANK
4. The Know-Nothings were also known
as_______.
5. Horace Greeley’s profession (job) was ______.
MATCHING
• 1848 b. 1852 c. 1856
d.1860
1. Franklin Pierce was elected President in ____
2. James Buchanan was elected President in ___
3. The Republican party first ran a candidate for
president in _________.
FILL IN THE BLANK
4. The Know-Nothing party was anti- _________.
5. Horace Greeley helped to found the ________
Party.
Why were new political parties
emerging
in the mid-1800’s?
NEW POLITICAL PARTIES
• Know-Nothing Party (Nativism): formed in
1849, favors native-born people over
immigrants, anti-Catholic, and originally a
secret-society.
• Free-Soil Party (Anti-slavery): formed in 1848
to oppose extension of slavery into the
territories.
• Republican Party : Founded in 1854 to oppose
Kansas-Nebraska Act and keep slavery out of
territories. Absorbed parts of the Whigs, Freesoilers, and Know-nothing parties.
Election of 1852
• The Whig Party nominates Mexican war
hero Winfield Scott.
• Scott opposes the Fugitive Slave Act.
• This infuriates Southern Whigs.
• Whig Party splits over slavery.
• Democratic candidate Franklin Pierce
becomes President in 1852.
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1848
Free
Soil
Party
Whigs
N. Whigs
1852
S. Whigs
Democrats
Franklin Pierce
1856
Republican Party
Know-Nothings
Democrats
James Buchanan
Election of 1856
• Search for “Kansas-less” candidates
• Republicans (new party) pick John C. Fremont
PLATFORM: No further extension of slavery
• Democrats pick James Buchanan
PLATFORM: Popular sovereignty in territories
• American/Nativists pick ex-Pres. Fillmore
PLATFORM: anti-Catholic, anti-immigrant
RESULT: Buchanan wins, Democrats are split N & S
See http://uselectionatlas.org/USPRESIDENT/
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Complete HarpWeek Explanation:
Abraham Lincoln's supporters are portrayed as radicals and eccentrics of various stripes. The satire is loosely based on an anti-Fremont cartoon from the previous
presidential race, "The Great Republican Reform Party" (no. 1856-22), also issued by Nathaniel Currier.
Here Lincoln, sitting astride a wooden rail borne by Horace Greeley, leads his followers toward a lunatic asylum. Greeley instructs him, "Hold on to me Abe, and we'll
go in here by the unanimous consent of the people." Lincoln exhorts his followers, "Now my friends I'm almost in, and the millennium is going to begin, so ask what
you will and it shall be granted."
At the head of the group is a bearded man, arm-in-arm with a woman and a Mormon. He claims to "represent the free love element, and expect to have free license to
carry out its principles." The woman looks at Lincoln, saying "Oh! what a beautiful man he is, I feel a {grave}passionate attraction' every time I see his lovely face."
The Mormon adds, "I want religion abolished and the book of Mormon made the standard of morality."
They are followed by a dandified free black, who announces, "{grave}De white man hab no rights dat cullud pussons am bound to spect' I want dat understood." Behind
him an aging suffragette says, "I want womans rights enforced, and man reduced in subjection to her authority." Next a ragged socialist or Fourierist, holding a liquor
bottle, asserts, "I want everybody to have a share of everybody elses property."
At the end of the group are three hooligans, one demanding "a hotel established by government, where people that aint inclined to work, can board free of expense, and
be found in rum and tobacco." The second, a thief, wants "the right to examine every other citizen's pockets without interruption by Policemen." The last, an Irish street
tough, says, "I want all the stations houses burned up, and the M.P.s killed, so that the bohoys can run with the machine and have a muss when they please."
Source: American Political Prints, 1766 - 1876: A Catalog of the Collections in the Library of Congress, 1991, by Bernard F. Reilly, Jr.
Complete HarpWeek Explanation:
In this cartoon from the Wide-Awake Pictorial, a stormy political sea has put Democrats in distress and has capsized the
Know-Nothings, who are offered space by the confident Republican crew if they promise to act civilly and remain quiet.
Know-Nothings were members of the American Party, which was organized in the early 1850s in support of stringent
immigration restrictions. Many members were also opposed to the expansion of slavery and, therefore, joined the Republican
Party in the late 1850s and 1860.
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REPUBLICAN
PARTY
FACTORS IN THE RISE OF THE
REPUBLICAN PARTY
THE UNION IN PERIL:
CAUSES OF THE CIVIL WAR
CHAPTER 10
Section 4
Slavery and Secession
Why did the South secede?
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