the 1860 plank of the republican party corresponded most closely with the principles of....?

Question

1. liberty party
2. whig party
3. free soil party
4. american party
5. federalist part
which one of these is the answer?

Answer 1

The wording of your question is not entirely clear, but in any case the answer MUST be "3" the "Free Soil Party", NOT the Whig Party, as many (understandably but mistakenly) assume.

About your question -- it is missing something. A party would not have a "plank" but rather a whole "platform" that includes SEVERAL "planks". So it's not clear whether you meant to ask which party PLATFORM was closest to the 1860 Republican Party Platform... or to ask about some specific planks IN the Republican Platform (and how they compared to those in the platforms of other parties).

But that hardly matters. If you compare the platforms of the Republican, Whig and Free Soil platforms, you'll find that EVERY plank in the 1860 Republican Party platform (as also their platform of 1856) is consistent with Free Soil platforms. On the other hand, many of these planks were NEVER found in a Whig platform (some were in both Whig and Free Soil), and one of the Whig planks of 1852 was ANTI-Free Soil positions (viz., one agreeing to abide by the Fugitive Slave Law of 1850, a tense issue about with the Northern and Southern Whigs were trying to compromise).

The most important thing in all this was that the CENTRAL issue in both Free Soil and Republican Party platforms of this era was that of the extension of slavery in the territories. At the same time, the Whig Party never really addressed that issue (not surprisingly since it was disagreement over precisely this issue that SPLIT the Northern & Southern Whigs and destroyed this party by 1854.

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Thus the assumption that the Republican platform would mostly mimic earlier Whig platform is mistaken. This idea is based on the fact that. numerically, much of the early Republican Party membership came from the Northern wing of the recently collapsed Whig Party. BUT these folks joined with OTHERS, and the cause that united them was the "anti-Nebraska" cause (that is, against the Kansas-Nebraska bill of 1854 which would allow those territories, if they chose, to become slave states).

In other words, the CENTRAL issue of this new party was opposition to the spread of slavery into the territories, otherwise known as the"free soil" position. And this position, as the party name hints, had been the DEFINING issue of the "Free Soil Party".

Another key is that the people who took the lead in formulating the first Republican Party PLATFORM in 1856 (which 1860 mostly follows) were those who had COME from the Free Soil Party.

A little note on that party's history -- it was formed in the 1840s from a combination of the older abolitionist "Liberty Party", "Conscience (anti-slavery) Whigs" and the section of the New York Democratic Party that supported the "Wilmot Proviso" (a measure that would have outlawed slavery in territories acquired from the Mexican-American War).

Also note that the Free Soil Party already shared some ideas of the Whigs (partly from the group of Whigs that had helped create this party), including a belief (albeit milder) in the importance of tariffs to protect American industry, and in the federal government's role in financing "internal improvements" --large projects of interest to all states, such as road and railway systems. (The Free Soilers ALSO very strongly objected to the "nativist" movement (of the "Know Nothings" or "American Party"), another view reflected in a plank of the Republican Party Platform.)

Answer 2

2 the Whig Party

Answer 3

I would say free soil party if I got that group fright. It was the free soilers who wanted to stop the expansion of slavery into the territorys. Anyways the republican party was a group that broke off from the whigs on the grounds of abolishing slavery.

Answer 4

2 the whig party its bascially the party it replaced in 1854

Answer 5

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