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 ...

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 ...

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 speaker here reviewed the position of the Republican Party on the Slavery question, and claimed that it was not new doctrine at all, but, was the same as was held by the founders of 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 ...