in the dangerous days of the anti-slavery movement, my great-grandfather was a founding member of the party created to oppose ...

For anti-MAGA Republicans, this new ballot line could be transformative ... who do not fit neatly within either major party. This was one way that anti-slavery third parties in the 1840s and ...

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 ...

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 ...

In 1832 he helped organize the New England Anti-Slavery ... He believed that the the Anti-Slavery Society should not align itself with any political party. He believed that women should be allowed ...

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 ...