Republicans in the Civil War...North or South??

Question

okay so if you were in the Republican Party during the Civil War time period did you live in the North or South?? Or were theyy even split up?? IM SO CONFUSED nd i NEED helpp!!! PLEASE!? .... so like was the Union (N) Republican or the Confederacy (S) Republican? or both? thanx for the help!

Answer 1

Only the North was Republican. Abe Lincoln was a Republican. (He was the first Republican President.)

Answer 2

Well, it's hard to say exactly. Political parties have changed a lot since that period of time, with a near reversal of roles of Democrats and Republicans.

During that time, it is true that the Democrats were the racist whites trying to keep the status quo in the South (and therefore keep slavery in existence), and the heroic Republicans, such as Honest Abe, represented the North. Though don't think for one minute that all the Northern Republicans of that time were abolitionists. Even Honest Abe was no abolitionist. The Emancipation Proclamation had less to do with ending slavery and more to do with enlisting black soldiers to fight for the Northern army. Abolitionists were far and few between even in the North... it was considered a radical viewpoint for the time.

Now getting back to the Democrat/Republican thing, most people now associate Democrats with being liberal and Republicans with being conservative. This was actually the other way around until probably around the 1920s when Hoover became president (remember the stock market crash of 1929?). That is about when the roles reversed, and became what they are today. That is why the conservative South typically votes Republican today and the North generally votes for the liberal Democrats in presidential elections these days.

Answer 3

The Republicans were definitely a Northern party. From the outset the Republican party did very poorly in the South for obvious reasons . This would stay this way for the most part until the late 1960's and with the recent demographic changes the Republicans seemed to have the edge in the South and the Democrats in the North

Answer 4

The Republican party was a split from the old Whig Party. The Republicans had as one of their main party ideas, no more slavery in the new territories. They did believe originally, as did many Americans, that the Constitution guaranteed it in states that already had it. They also wanted to form a National Bank, and invest Federal funds into infrastructure improvements.
I'm sure you've already figured out, that with such a party ideology, they were a Northern Party. Democrats split over this issue as well in the 1860 election, partially contributing to Lincoln's victory. The Democratic Party was divided into War and Peace Democrats, and Secessionists and "Unionists" (which really meant that they were opposed to secession, at least until all other avenues were exhausted-not that they were pro-Union). They also opposed the National Bank (which they felt would make "hard money"-making it hard to get loans etc), and Federal funding. Believing, with some justification, that the Northern majorities would steer the money away from Southern projects.

Answer 5

The North (Union) was predominantly Republican. The South (Confederacy) was predominantly Democrat.

Remember, Abraham Lincoln was the Union president at the time. Jefferson Davis was the Confederate president at the time.

Lincoln=Republican
Davis=Democrat

Answer 6

Founded in 1854 by anti-slavery expansion activists and modernizers, the Republican Party rose to prominence with the election of Abraham Lincoln, the first Republican president. The party presided over the American Civil War and Reconstruction

Answer 7

President Lincoln was of the Republican Party, and he represented the NORTH in the Civil war.

I'm sure there were variances here & there, but for the most part, the split was Anti-slave was primarily the Northern States (because their economy was not as agricultural as the South's and the South needed the manual labor for the crops).

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Answer 8

The republicans won the north and Abraham Lincoln was their candidate and became President. The south were mostly democrats and when they lost the election they decided to secede from the union and create their own government.

Answer 9

Lincoln was a New Republican, the party that brought down slavery.
The Democrats have been falsely accusing the Republicans ever since of being the most racist, when it was the Dems who defended the balancing of states so that legislatively nothing could be done to end slavery, peacefully. Because of that we had a civil war with enormous casualties, 260,000 Americans died on US soil.

Answer 10

The Republicans were mostly in the North, but there were occasional Republicans in the South.