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The Birth of the Republican Party

Main Idea. Essential Question. The Birth of the Republican Party. What factors contributed to the growth of the Republican Party?. Objectives. New Political Parties Emerge.

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The Birth of the Republican Party

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  1. Main Idea • Essential Question The Birth of the Republican Party What factors contributed to the growth of the Republican Party?

  2. Objectives

  3. New Political Parties Emerge • Slavery, Kansas-Nebraska Act, and Fugitive Slave Act deeply divide Democratic and Whig Parties, weakening their influence over national politics • Both parties seek compromise, lack solutions • Whig party nominates Winfield Scott for 1852 Presidential Election, a Northern candidate who praised the Compromise of 1850, but disliked the Fugitive Slave Act. Division costs Whigs the election of 1852 • Northern Whigs liked Scott but hated the party platform of supporting slavery. Southern Whigs liked the platform but hated Scott. • Franklin Pierce –

  4. Nativism – • Influx of Irish and German immigrants into Northern cities caused concern, despite that immigrants often only had access to the worst paying jobs in society • Protestants fear influence of Catholic Pope in US affairs • Know-Nothing Party – Know-Nothing Party

  5. Free-Soil Party • The Liberty Party was the first true abolitionist party, but did not gain much traction in their one and only election (1848) • Free-Soil Party – • Nominated ex-President Martin Van Buren in 1848, received about 10% of the popular vote • Free-Soilers thought a conspiracy existed on behalf of spreading “diabolical slave power” • Abolitionists claimed it was a party more interested in keeping soil free than setting men free

  6. The Republican Party • Discontented Northern Whigs, Anti-Slavery Democrats and fringe Free-Soilers gathered together to make a political party that was uncompromising on the issue of slavery • Republican Party – • Republicans were able to draw support from diverse groups, becoming an immediate player in elections • Violence in Kansas and in the Senate causes many people to drift to Republican Party, hoping to bring strong moral leadership to Washington • Horace Greeley –

  7. Growth of Republican Party

  8. The 1856 Election • Northerners were furious over the situation in Bleeding Kansas and the canning of Charles Sumner on the floor of the Senate • Republicans use these issues to rally Northern support for the election of 1856 while other parties implode over slavery • John C. Fremont – • The South most likely would have seceded in the case of a Fremont victory • Demonstrated that the Republican Party was the new dominant force in the North • James Buchanan –

  9. Major Political Parties 1850-1860

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