MANIFEST DESTINY 1806 1855
THE MEXICAN AMERICAN WAR
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northern and Southern members split over the slavery issue.
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members disagreed sharply over their party’s presidential nominee.
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members polarized over the Dred Scott decision.
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Northeastern and Western members split over popular sovereignty.
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Detailed explanation-1: -The all-consuming issue of slavery was the Whigs’ ultimate undoing, pitting Northern and Southern Whigs against each other, and scattering Whig leadership to upstart third parties like the Know Nothings and the Republicans.
Detailed explanation-2: -The battle between pro-slavery and anti-slavery factions within the Whig party ended when the Kansas-Nebraska Act was passed in 1854, allowing new territories and states to decide on their own if they would allow slavery. The Northern Whigs left the remnants of the Whig Party to form the new Republican Party.
Detailed explanation-3: -Northern anti-slavery Whigs opposed slavery’s westward expansion, and this provided enough basis for policy consensus: protecting slavery against abolitionism while opposing its spread to new territories.