Like the country, the Whig Party could not exist half slave and half free. Meanwhile, the Democratic party managed to remain intact throughout that decade, but ...

Southern Democrats insisted on protecting slavery in all the territories while many Northern Democrats resisted. The party split over the slavery issue in 1860 ...

In the 1860 election, Republican Congressman Abraham Lincoln won the presidency, running against the expansion of slavery into US territories. During the civil ...

Slavery, Secession, and States' Rights. The 1860 presidential election turned on a number of issues including secession; the relationship between the federal ...

Aug 27, 2020 · If that sounds strange, you don't know your history. It was the Republican Party that passed the 13th Amendment, abolishing slavery. It was the ...

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The 1860 Republican Party convention in Chicago created a platform that clearly opposed the expansion of slavery in the West and the reopening of the slave ...

The Democratic Party also split over the issue of slavery in the years leading to the Civil War, with some Northern Democrats adopting anti-slavery (“free soil”) ...

In the 19th century, they defended slavery in the United States and promoted its expansion into the Western United States against the Free Soil opposition in ...