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THE REPUBLICAN PARTY WAS FOUNDED IN 1854

On this day in history, March 20, 1854, Republican Party founded to oppose expansion of slavery ...
It all started in this little white schoolhouse in Wisconsin.


In Ripon, Wisconsin, former members of the Whig Party met to
establish a new party
to oppose the spread of slavery into the
western territories. The Whig Party, which was formed in 1834
to oppose the “tyranny” of President
Andrew Jackson, had
shown itself incapable of coping with the national crisis over
slavery.


With the successful introduction of the Kansas-Nebraska Bill
of 1854 that dissolved the terms of the
Missouri Compromise
and allowed slave or free status to be decided in the territories
by popular sovereignty, the Whigs disintegrated.

By February 1854, anti-slavery Whigs had begun meeting in the
upper midwestern states to discuss the formation of a new party
and one such meeting, in Wisconsin was on this day in 1854 and
is generally remembered as the birth of the Republican Party.

Opinion | The Republican Party that was founded in Ripon is no more ...

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