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The republican party was established by those who were opposed to slavery.
The Whig Party, which ran its last candidate for president in 1852. The Republican Party was formed in 1854, and soon supplanted the Whigs.
They supported it. It was only the Republicans who were against slavery. In addition, the Democrats created the Ku Klux Klan.
There have been four presidential assassins. Booth, the man who killed Lincoln was still fighting the Civil War against the North. He was surely not a Republican and if he voted, he would have voted against Lincoln. The Democrats were split over slavery but those who supported slavery were mostly Democrats, so he may have considered himself a democrat. The three other assassins were clearly not democrats.
Northern abolitionists formed the Republican Party in the 1850s. This new political party emerged as a coalition of anti-slavery Whigs, Free Soilers, and Democrats who opposed the expansion of slavery into the western territories. The party aimed to unite various factions against the spread of slavery and played a significant role in the election of Abraham Lincoln in 1860.
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Puritans refused to hold enslaved people; Quakers and Mennonites condemned slavery
The republican party was established by those who were opposed to slavery.
The Whig Party, which ran its last candidate for president in 1852. The Republican Party was formed in 1854, and soon supplanted the Whigs.
The Whig Party
The Whigs and Democrats avoided and evaded the issue of slavery in the election of 1848 by splitting down the middle on who was for and who was against slavery. Whigs and Democrats in the South wanted to keep slavery. Whigs and Democrats in the North wanted to abolish slavery.
no it wasnt because the Northern Whigs joined with other opponents of slavery.and the north was against slavery yes they were against slavery the democrats were for it
The Democratic party split in 1860 over slavery, in particular the question of whether it would be allowed in the new states that might join the union.
i think that they were afraid of nanny