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Whigs
~ party ran a "Log Cabin and Hard Cider" campaign: presentes their presidential canidate
~ believed in a "loose construction" of the constitution
~included supporting big gov. with national bank
~included the congressional regulation of the expansion . of slavery -
Liberty Party
~ political outgrowth of the growing anti-slavery movement
~ radicals followed William Lloyd Garrison
~ William Lloyd Garrison: demanded the immediate ending of slavery, denounced the U.S. Constitution, and allowed female activists into the movement -
Democrats
~ split by the Mexican War annexation
~ southern and western Democrats allied
~ allied for a moderate platform to extend slavery
-- not going far enough for many slaveholding Southerns, . . who desired a firmer assurance of slavery's expansion -
Whigs
~ dedicated to the enforcement of the provisions of the compromise of 1850
-- included admission of California as a free state and a . . . strister fugitive slave law
~ condemned agitation of the slavery issue
~ saw the compromise of 1850 -
Republicans
~ grew out of resistance to the Kansas-Nebraska Act: 1854
~ included anti-slavery Whigs
~ included free soldirs
~ included reformers -
American Party
~ caused many nativists to fear foreign invasion
~ organized secret order knon as the "Known-Notihngs" or the "Order of the Star Spangled Banner"
~ politicized themselves in 1856 as the american party -
Republicans
~ absorbed anti-slavery Whigs
~ absorbed Know-Nothings
~ endorsed a protective tariff, the Homestead act
~ endorsed a protective tariff, internal improvements -
Democrats
~ split along "war" and "peace" factions
~ united George McClellan in the 1864 election
~ appeased those who desired to defeat the Confederacy
~ appeased those who favored negotiation
~ appeased those who favored compromise