Chapter Two: Rise of the Republican Party
The 1856 political banner for the first nominees of the Republican party, John...
Credit: The Library Company of Philadelphia
The Republican Party was born out of the great political crisiss of the 1850s. During that decade, Americans grew fearful that their experiment in self-government was falling apart. Disagreement over the fate of slavery was the prime force behind this crisis, but European immigration, westward expansion, industrialization, and political corruption also troubled Americans, especially northerners who lived amidst the greatest changes.
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