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In 1854, the Republican Party emerged to combat the expansion of slavery into western 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.
The Origins of the Republican Party. Trying times spawn new forces. The Missouri Compromise of 1820 divided the country at the 36° 30' parallel between the pro-slavery, agrarian South and anti-slavery, industrial North, creating an uneasy peace which lasted for three decades.
In 1854, the Republican Party was founded in the Northern United States by forces opposed to the expansion of slavery, ex-Whigs, and ex-Free Soilers. The Republican Party quickly became the principal opposition to the dominant Democratic Party and the briefly popular Know Nothing Party.
9 lut 2010 · 1854. Republican Party founded. Photo Credit: Bettmann Archives/Getty Images. In Ripon, Wisconsin, former members of the Whig Party meet to establish a new party to oppose the spread of slavery...
7 lip 2004 · Already in the 1854 elections the Republicans gained a majority in the House of Representatives. Two years later the party ran its first presidential candidate, the celebrated western explorer John C. Fremont, who carried eleven states.
14 lis 2019 · The founding of the Republican Party occurred in the mid-1850s, sparked by anti-enslavement activists responding to the Kansas-Nebraska Act.
4 kwi 2018 · Founded in 1854 as a coalition opposing the extension of slavery into Western territories, the Republican Party fought to protect the rights of African Americans after the Civil War. Today’s...
