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The American Party was a nativist party formed to keep immigrants out of the U.S. that had up to 500,000 members at one point. This group was part of the Know Nothing movement.
The issue of slavery split the party. "Conscience Whigs" in the North favored the abolition of slavery and halting the institution's spread into new territories. The "Cotton Whigs" in the South took the opposite viewpoints. Following Scott's poor showing in 1852, the southerners moved to the Democratic Party and the northerners to the newly formed Republican Party.