LIFE IN ANTEBELLUM AMERICA 1807 1861
SLAVERY IN AMERICA COTTON SLAVE TRADE AND THE SOUTHERN RESPONSE
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Republicans
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Democrats
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Whigs
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Detailed explanation-1: -In 1854, the Republican Party emerged to combat the expansion of slavery into American territories after the passing of the Kansas–Nebraska Act. The early Republican Party consisted of northern Protestants, factory workers, professionals, businessmen, prosperous farmers, and after the Civil War, former black slaves.
Detailed explanation-2: -The Republican Party formed primarily as opposition to the Democratic Party. It consisted mainly of antislavery Whigs, whose party had dissolved by the end of 1854 due to conflict over the issue of slavery, the work of anti-slavery Democrats, and members of the Free-Soil Party.
Detailed explanation-3: -The Free Soil Party was a short-lived coalition political party in the United States active from 1848 to 1854, when it merged into the Republican Party. The party was largely focused on the single issue of opposing the expansion of slavery into the western territories of the United States.