What political party would you be affiliated with in 1860?

Hello, there are many quizzes out there about if you would be a Whig or Tory, Federalist or Democratic-Republican, Whig or Democrat, but barely any about if you would be a Republican, Northern Democrat, Constitutional Unionist, or Southern Democrat in the political climate of 1860. My quiz aimes to tell what you would be affiliated with and you can compare that with your current affiliation today! I hope you enjoy!

The four options you can get as listed above are the Republican Party, created in 1854 not that long ago, the Northern Democratic Party which was formed by a split of democratic northerners and southerners at the 1860 DNC, the Constitutional Union Party, believing in conserving the constitution in any way possible, and the Southern Democratic Party made up of southern democrats who disagreed with their northern counterparts.

Created by: Thomas Fitch

What is your view on tariffs(during the 19th century)?
- Tariffs are good for business to thrive
- Tariffs are bad for American business
- I'm fine with tariffs or no tariffs as long as long as the vote was fair
What is your view on the expansion of slavery during the 1860's?
- Slavery should NOT be allowed to expand to new territories
- Slavery was necessary back then and should expand to new territories
- Their should be a vote on if slavery's expansion should be allowed
What is your view on acquiring Cuba from Spain in the 1860's?
- We should have acquired Cuba
- It would not be the smart choice to acquire Cuba at that moment in time
- I am not for or against acquiring Cuba as long as it is voted on in just ways
What is your view on building a transcontinental/Pacific railroad during the 1860's?
- A transcontinental railroad would be very useful to get across the country
- A transcontinental railroad would not be good at the time
- Whatever Congress decides on is fine with me
What is your view on the Dred Scott vs. Sanford ruling?
- It was a horrible ruling and former slaves should be able to become citizens
- Anything the supreme court rules should be kept as law no matter what the circumstances are
- It was a great ruling and anything in favor of the expansion of slavery should be kept as law
What is your view on territorial land?
- It is the duty of the federal government to protect anyone in a territory and settlers should be able to create their own state that should be allowed to have slavery
- The homestead act is right, houses in new territories should belong to independent farmers
- The federal government should have more authority than territorial governments in making decisions
- Whatever Congress thinks is right for new territories is fine with me
What is your view on an income tax in the 1860's?
- Their should be an income tax to help the government pay for whatever it needs
- Their shouldn't be an income tax, it would be bad for taxpayers and business
- Whatever Congress thinks is best is fine
What is your view on industrialization in the 1860's?
- Industrialization is great and helps our country evolve
- Major Industrialization is bad and we should stick to agricultural interests
- Neither are good or bad and whatever Congress thinks is probably a well thought out and good decision
What is your view on government investments in the 1860's?
- We should invest into things that will modernize our country
- We should invest into creating more agricultural and mechanical colleges
- We should invest into creating more agricultural and mechanical colleges and modernization
- Whatever Congress decides to invest in is a good decision
- We shouldn't invest into any of these things
What is your view on big business in the 1860's?
- Big Business is generally good for American society
- We need to protect the working class from big business
- We shouldn't care about big business or the working class
- Whatever the government thinks is better for the situation is fine
What is your view on immigration during the 1860's?
- Immigrants should be welcomed and made citizens, in general immigration was great
- Immigration was not good and less of it should have occurred
- Whatever Congress thinks about immigration and it's limits during the time is good
What are your views on segregation in the 1860's?
- Segregation is horrible and should not occur
- Segregation is good for our country
- Whatever seems right for the time by the government is right by me
What is your view on the fugitive slave act?
- It was horrible, we shouldn't be forced to turn in other people's slaves
- It was good as it defended other people's property rights
What is your view on the legal tender act?
- It was good solving many debt issues with the war and general people's issues with debt
- It was horrible! We shouldn't give out money to people, pay your own debts!
- Whatever seemed right by Congress at the time is the right decision

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