Personally in a nutshell, it was telling everyone that succession was wrong and the south needed to come to their senses. let the slaves go and go back to being a union
At a national nominating convention, the presidential and vice president nominees are determined. Also the party comes up with its platform for the election.
Slavery was the major issue in the 1860 election. The Republican Party platform promised not to interfere with slavery in the states, but opposed the further extension of slavery into the territories. Republican Party candidate Abraham Lincoln won the 1860 presidential election defeating John Breckinridge, John Bell and Stephen Douglas. Abraham Lincoln received 180 electoral votes from 18 of the 33 states. Abraham Lincoln did not receive electoral votes from any southern state. Lincoln was not on the ballot in Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Louisiana, Mississippi, North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee and Texas. South Carolina, Mississippi, Florida, Alabama, Georgia, Louisiana, and Texas declared its secession from the United States following the November 1860 election of Republican candidate Abraham Lincoln to the U.S. presidency. The Civil War began with the Confederate attack upon Fort Sumter on April 12, 1861, a Union fort in the harbor of Charleston, South Carolina. After the Civil War began in April, Virginia, Arkansas, Tennessee, and North Carolina also declared their secession and joined the Confederacy.
The populists were, for the most part, unelectable on a national level. Their strong anti-elite, pro-agrarian platform lead to a voter base consisting almost completely of white farmers. In 1896, the Democratic party picked up many of the populist party's platform points. Realizing this, the populist leadership began debating whether to run their own candidate in the presidential election or to endorse the more electable Democrat, William Jennings Bryan. After a heated debate, the party came out in support of Bryan. During the election, Bryan took most of the populist vote. Unfortunately for them, Bryan lost the election. The populists were severely demoralized by this, and began to fracture as groups left for the more stable democrats or fought to gain control of the party.
The Republican Party had taken a firm and explicit anti slavery stand. Although their platform for 1860 was to leave slavery alone where it already existed, they were determined to enact legislation such that no more slave states would be admitted to the Union. The southern ploitical leadership feared that it would be only a matter of time before slavery was abolished. Michael Montagne
Personally in a nutshell, it was telling everyone that succession was wrong and the south needed to come to their senses. let the slaves go and go back to being a union
Protective tariffs were featured in the 1860 Republican Party platform. Other items included were free homesteads, and support for building a transcontinental railroad.
The official Republican Party platform for the election of 1860 included a promise not to interfere with slavery in the states, but opposed slavery in the territories. Abraham Lincoln was chosen as the candidate to represent the Party.
Because he ran for President on a platform denouncing disunion and calling for an end to slavery in the territories.
The railroad republicans were the Republican platform who specifically pledged not to extend slavery and called for enactment of free-homestead legislation, prompt establishment of a daily mail service, a transcontinental railroad and support of the protective tariff.
He approved an anti-slavery platform, calling for Congressional sovereignty in the territories, an end to polygamy in Mormon settlements, and federal assistance for a transcontinental railroad.
This outline is called the party platform. The individual points in the platform are called planks. The platform tells what the party stands for in its bid for election. It is usually forgotten after the election is over.
The Free-Soil Party opposed the expansion of slavery into the Western territories. The Free-Soil Party did not have a candidate in the 1860 election. The new Republican Party was founded replacing the Free-Soil Party. In the 1860 election the Republican Party nominated Abraham Lincoln with a platform that promised not to interfere with slavery in the states, but opposed the further extension of slavery into the territories.
This outline is called the party platform. The individual points in the platform are called planks. The platform tells what the party stands for in its bid for election. It is usually forgotten after the election is over.
He wanted expansion of slavery in the territories. :(
i think the demacrotic
Teddy Roosevelt's Bull Moose party platform was built around the direct election. He was the president.