Quote:Now the creation of the Republican Party and Lincoln's presidency was to address slavery lol I've heard it all now.

Quote:Founded in the Northern states in 1854 by anti-slavery activists, modernizers, ex-Whigs, and ex-<a class="" href='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Free_Soil' title="Free Soil">Free Soilers</a>, the Republican Party quickly became the principal opposition to the dominant <a class="" href='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_the_Democratic_Party_%28United_States%29' title="History of the Democratic Party (United States)">Democratic Party</a> and the briefly popular Know Nothing Party. The main cause was opposition to the Kansas–Nebraska Act, which repealed the Missouri Compromise by which slavery was kept out of Kansas. The Northern Republicans saw the expansion of slavery as a great evil. The first public meeting where the name "Republican" was suggested for a new anti-slavery party was held on March 20, 1854 in a schoolhouse in Ripon, Wisconsin.^[16] The name was partly chosen to pay homage to Thomas Jefferson's Republican Party.

The first official party convention was held on July 6, 1854, in Jackson, Michigan.^[17] By 1858, the Republicans dominated nearly all Northern states. The Republican Party first came to power in 1860 with the election of Lincoln to the Presidency and Republicans in control of Congress and again, the Northern states. It oversaw the preserving of the union, the end of slavery, and the provision of equal rights to all men in the American Civil War and <a class="" href='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reconstruction_era_of_the_United_States' title="Reconstruction era of the United States">Reconstruction</a>, 1861–1877.^[18]

 

Quote:It began as a coalition of anti-slavery "Conscience Whigs" and Free Soil Democrats opposed to the <a class="" href='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kansas-Nebraska_Act' title="Kansas-Nebraska Act">Kansas-Nebraska Act</a>, submitted to Congress by <a class="" href='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stephen_Douglas' title="Stephen Douglas">Stephen Douglas</a> in January 1854. The Act opened Kansas Territory and Nebraska Territory to slavery and future admission as slave states, thus implicitly repealing the prohibition on slavery in territory north of <a class="" href='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/36%C2%B0_30%E2%80%B2_latitude' title="36° 30′ latitude">36° 30′ latitude</a>, which had been part of the Missouri Compromise. This change was viewed by Free-Soil and Abolitionist Northerners as an aggressive, expansionist maneuver by the slave-owning South.
 

Quote:The Republican Party name was christened in an editorial written by New York newspaper magnate Horace Greeley. Greeley printed in June 1854: "We should not care much whether those thus united (<i>against slavery</i>) were designated 'Whig,' 'Free Democrat' or something else; though we think some simple name like 'Republican' would more fitly designate those who had united to restore the Union to its true mission of champion and promulgator of Liberty rather than propagandist of slavery."

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