about uniting anti-slavery-minded voters in a new party under the name "Republican." On March 1, 1854, Bovay called a meeting ...

House Republicans are unveiling a new bill to stop federal funds to any state or local area that pays for slavery reparations ...

Anti-Nebraska' men included anti-slavery Whigs, Democrats ... resolved that steps should be taken to form a new Republican Party to appeal to all those who opposed slavery in the territories ...

Would the new territories be slave-holding ... The Kansas-Nebraska Act led to the birth of the Republican Party, which promoted an anti-slavery interpretation of the Constitution.

The Republican Party emerged in 1854 from the embers of the anti-slavery movement and the ashes ... and the era of Republican opposition to the New Deal." It would take another decade or so ...

As anti-immigrant and ... over national issues like slavery. Some former Whigs defected to the Know-Nothings while others joined a new party, the antislavery Republicans. Millard Fillmore, the ...

The Whigs were based in New England and New York ... 1860: Republicans: Abraham Lincoln The Republican Party absorbed anti-slavery Whigs and most Know-Nothings. It became more moderate in ...

Assemblymember Lori Wilson, a Democrat from Suisun City, this month introduced a new constitutional amendment aimed at abolishing the everyday de facto slavery practices that persist inside ...

The Republican Party were not popular in the South. Southerners believed that they wished to abolish slavery. In the 1860 election the Republican candidate Abraham Lincoln won all the Northern states.

The Democrat politician Stephen Douglas had the idea that the new territories of ... Nebraska became a battle ground Anti-slavery leaders formed the Republican Party with the political aim of ...