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The Whig Party dissolved because they were in disagreement about splitting slavery sections into Northern and Southern branches. It dissolved in 1856.
In 1856, the Republican national platform was a projection of the party's roots. The party had been formed when the Whig Party had folded. The platform reflected the beliefs of anti slavery Democrats, former Whigs, and the so called northern Know Nothings. The key component of the platform demanded the exclusion of slavery in the territories, and the admission of Kansas as a free State. For some reason, the Republicans did not push for the end of slavery in Washington DC.Republicans also campaigned against the polygamy of the Mormons.
computers weren't invented in 1856.
The Republican Party was formed by Free Soilers who did not want slavery to spread into the western territories. They were not friendly toward blacks, they just did not want to compete for jobs or lower the wages available. Most western territories excluded blacks or made it very difficult for them to migrate into these areas, free or slave. Basically, the Republican Party was a working-class party for white men.
A section from Bray to Greystones was completed in 1856.
Bridget Biddy Mason was released from slavery in 1856 when she moved to Los Angles, California.
The Republican Party
Kansas-Nebraska Act
Yes. When Fremont ran for president in 1856, he was well-known for his anti-slavery opinion.
Abraham Lincoln ran in the election of 1856 against Fredrick Douglass and wanted slavery stoped.
fighting between pro-slavery and antislavery forces
The Sack of Lawrence Kansas.
Kansas
Richmond Enquirer, 1856: "Democratic liberty exists solely because we have slaves . . . freedom is not possible without slavery."
John Brown came to the Kansas Territory to fight slavery. In May 1856 John Brown led a group that killed several proslavery settlers near Pottawatomie Creek. In August 1856, Brown and his followers engaged 400 pro-slavery U.S. soldiers in the "Battle of Osawatomie".
A 'Sharps' carbine (gun) used in the anti-slavery immigrants in Kansas circa 1856.
he killed a group of proslavery settlers near pottawatomie creek