In early 1854, the Kansas-Nebraska Act — a bill ... Can you visit the site where the Republican Party was formed in Ripon, ...
The Whig Party formed out of the National Republican Party ... Party grew out of resistance to the Kansas-Nebraska Act of 1854, which overrode the Missouri Compromise and allowed slavery to ...
The Republican Party were not popular in the South. Southerners believed that they wished to abolish slavery. In the 1860 election the Republican candidate Abraham Lincoln won all the Northern states.