USA HISTORY

MANIFEST DESTINY 1806 1855

COMPROMISE OF 1850

Question [CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
Anti-slavery activists founded the ____ Party in the northern states in 1854, largely in response to the Kansas-Nebraska Act.
A
Republican
B
Democratic
C
Libertarian
D
None of the above
Explanation: 

Detailed explanation-1: -Lewis Tappan set up the American and Foreign Anti-Slavery Society and at the same time the Liberty Party was founded, nominating James Birney as President in 1840 and 1844.

Detailed explanation-2: -The Emergence of the Republican Party and Abraham Lincoln Formed in 1854, the Republican Party has been at the center of American politics for more than a century and a half.

Detailed explanation-3: -It became law on May 30, 1854. The Kansas-Nebraska Act repealed the Missouri Compromise, created two new territories, and allowed for popular sovereignty. It also produced a violent uprising known as “Bleeding Kansas, ” as proslavery and antislavery activists flooded into the territories to sway the vote.

Detailed explanation-4: -Most important, the Kansas-Nebraska Act gave rise to the Republican Party, a new political party that attracted northern Whigs, Democrats who shunned the Kansas-Nebraska Act, members of the Free-Soil Party, and assorted abolitionists.

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