these are some of the political parties in the mid 1850?

Question

these are some of the political parties in the mid 1850 which political party gain support and why whay not others gain support? somebody please help me with this

Answer 1

In order to understand why some American political parties live and others die, you have to understand the structure of the American electoral system. American political parties have always formed around the prospect of capturing the presidency; and since one has to win a great many states' electoral votes, American parties have to be "Big Tents" that encompass a great many (and sometimes contradictory) social elements.

The Whig (not, "wig") party was mortally wounded by the Kansas-Nebraska Act; and so it was dying in the 1850s. The Know-Nothings and the Free Soilers were both parties that emerged for single issues (Slavery, immigration -- whatever).
Because they were essentially one-note themes, these parties failed to resonate with the voters. In the long-run, the emerging Republican Party absorbed the issues of the parties, and thus, absorbed the parties as well.

This is why 3rd parties don't fare well in America. They generally form around single issues (like "crime" in 1968, which became the rallying cry of George Wallace's new American Independence Party). But what invariably happens is that the issue simply gets co-opted by one of the two main parties. After the election of 1968, the crime issue was absorbed by the Republicans, and the AIP disappeared. Since the 3rd party has only one issue, AND since one of the big parties is now talking about the issue, people tend to desert the 3rd party because they understand that they have a much better chance of getting thier issue addressed by the major party that has adopted it.

Slavery killed the Whigs because they could never come to definite terms with it. Slavery was a major issue, and because the Republicans addressed it, and a great many other issues like Immigration, business and labor, etc, etc, they were able to become the new 2nd party in America, while the single issue parties simply got absorbed.

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Answer 2

Republican
Democrat
Whig
Know-Nothings
Free Soilers
The Republicans and the Democrats were the major parties through the 1850's while the Whigs were influential in the first half of the 1850's but were sectioned off due to their philosophy concerning slavery . The Free- Soilers were basically the Northern Whigs and the Southern Whigs became Democrats or Know-Nothings, an anti-immigrant anti- Catholic party who believed that if Catholics were involved too much in politics the Pope would rule here in a Popery state. The party did not last but its ideas have been far reaching . Eventually the Whigs were shattered basically by their sectional diversity. The Free-Soilers were basically engulfed by the Republican who eventually took the banner for abolition of slavery which made the Free-soilers an obsolete one issue party.

Answer 3

The Republican, Democrat, and Whig were big time parties in the 1850's. Though many others existed, few had much support. One smaller one that had big support from virtually all of the farmers at the time was the Popular Party. It meant to gain support for agriculture, a dying occupation that was losing any credibility from Politics. The few farmers left tried to gain power by joining together.