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The Republican party.
Whig party died
to combat slavery and preserve the Union
The Republican Party became popular in the North in the mid-1850s with a central antislavery philosophy. It was formed in opposition to the spread of slavery into new states and territories.
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Republican
split of northern democrats, whigs, know nothing party, free soil party, liberty party. all formed to make republican party
The Republican Party emerged in the mid-1850s with a central antislavery philosophy. It gained popularity in the North by opposing the spread of slavery into new territories. Its success culminated in the election of Abraham Lincoln as president in 1860.
The Republican Party as a whole, were against slavery. President Lincoln was a Republican. The Republican party was is the party of the republic, (a republic is the form of government the founders and framers designed), which is the United States. The party was created to give American's that believed in the Constitution a party to stand with. The Constitution is against slavery and so is the republic. The republican party was the first to have an African American and former Slave, Fredrick Douglass, as a vice presidential candidate.
the whigs and democrats embraced the idea of popular sovereignty
dissolved into the 1850s
The party system that began when the first Republican was elected president in 1860 was the emergence of a two-party system dominated by Republicans and Democrats. The Republican Party was formed in the 1850s as an anti-slavery party, and the election of Abraham Lincoln as the first Republican president marked the start of their political dominance in the North and ultimately the reconfiguration of the party system in the United States.