Republicans/Democrats in the Civil War ?

Question

Did political orientation have anything to do w/ the civil war ?

I mean obviously even if it did, there were many exceptions, but were many slavery supporters Democrats [or vice versa. I have no idea. Example only] ?

All I know was Lincoln was a Republican.

But was slavery also a political divider in addition to regional issue back then ?


Ps. Yeah I kno, look it up. But I'm too lazy. So does anyone outright kno ? Haha.

♥ Clare ♥

Answer 1

Lincoln was a Republican, the South revolted after their choice for president (a Democrat) lost to him.

Someone on this page said the party of Lincoln later changed to the Democratic party. That's ridiculous, idiotic, ignorant wishful thinking. The party of Lincoln is still today's Republican party.

The Republican Party was founded FOR THE EXPRESS PURPOSE of ending slavery (that's why Lincoln chose to run as one). After the Civil War, the South became heavily Democrat. It was the Democrats that were the main opposition to the Civil Rights Movement.

Just in the last 20 years (after Reagan) has the South started to become Republican. Some of the Republicans in the last 10 years to be elected were the first Republicans elected in that state since Reconstruction.

Answer 2

The issue of slavery was more important to the south, but at the time while political parties had different names, the agenda was still basically the same.
A strong "federal" law abiding side and the other side, "libertarian",which voiced less stringent rules later became republican and democratic parties. Only the party names were changed.
Republicans had a strong base with the south before and after the civil war but lost it in the 60's when reform came about with liberty fully experimented in many ways, some successful and others were failures.
Bottom line, if you want law abiding citizens that want to work for a living, you want to be republican. If you want a government that likes experimenting with liberty (whether it hurts you not), and will give you support even if you don't work or do anything, then you are democratic.
Even today, politics has nothing to do with slavery. There is still slavery out there today but it is hidden within the sex trade. Both democrats and republicans are responsible for. The law should be enforced.

Answer 3

Short answer is that Lincoln was a Republican and the southern states have had a long tradition of voting Democratic, going back beofre the civil war. The gradual shift of southern states to the Republican party is a relatively recent change in history, in part because the more recent trends in the Democratic party are not in line with the beliefs of many Bible belt voters.

Answer 4

Not a direct answer but a slight correction to one above. Slave owners were not 1/4 of the population; they were 4%.

If you could access the party platforms of that era, you would get a clearer idea. These documents are probably archived. The national party headquarters of each party could get you started.

As far as the slavery issue, that was putting an evening gown on a mule. The fundamentals for all wars are economic, but to 'sell' it to the public, politicos cloak it in ideology. 99.9% of the people in the North didn't give a hoot about slavery or secession and sure didn't want to die for either.

Answer 5

AH, I am reading "House Divided" so I can answer this (c:

The war was caused by HUMAN error actually~
Lincoln was a republican that came from very poor upbringing, this we all KNOW> BUT... what they don't teach us is how this affected him. He resented his poor upbringing and suffered boughts of hiddeous depression.
Slavery was only a farce of the reason we divided the nation. The southerners were told they were protecting their right to own slaves, but the real war started when the rich slave owners thought they were INSULTED. Only 1/4 of the southerners even OWNED slaves. Each southern state formed its OWN army, and NONE wanted to leave their own state to fight the war where they were needed. Which was in Virginia... If the other states had sent their armies to Virginia in the beggining, they would have won the war because The northerners were NOT organized or trained for fighting. Where as the southern men were all RAISED to be shooters and hunters. Southern PRIDE was about all the southg had going for it. Unfortunately this FALSE pride got them whooped. The south did NOT have enough manufacturing plants for ANY metal goods. They had NO source of many of the things manufactured in the north. All they had was cotton.... many people profited from selling to the north and to England in sneaky ways.

Anyways... what kept the war going was that lies were told by both sides ABOUT each other in order to rouse the people into being enemies. Democrats of the south did NOT want their OWN the poor whites to even be able to vote. THEY were forced to FIGHT for the confederacy but they were allowed NO rights. The NON slave owners faught for the rights of THE rich. (sounds familiar because WE are STILL doing it today)

Republicans in the north thought that all people southern were crass and simple minded but they still didn't want them to form a seperate nation.

Answer 6

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Answer 7

Most democrats were pro slavery. The republican party was started to stop the expansion of slavery.

Answer 8

Lincoln was a Republican, the name of the party at that time. The party later changed to become today's democratic party.

Answer 9

The party lines were different back then. The values we associate with democrats today would have been associated with republicans back then.

Answer 10

Obviously i had some effect on the war but it wasen't the main reason.
Reasons

Slavery
Federalism
ideas for the future of America
expansionism (SP?)
Southern fears of modernity, Losing a great deal of their population