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THE UNION IN PERIL:
CAUSES OF THE CIVIL WAR
CHAPTER 10
Section 3
Birth of the Republican Party
Why were new political parties emerging
in the mid-1800’s?
Quiz 12/13-10.3
• Political party opposed to immigrants and
Catholics.
• Political Party founded in 1848 opposed to the
expansion of slavery in the territories.
• Political Party formed in 1854 in Ripon
Wisconsin.
• Who was elected in the 1856 presidential election?
• What hero of the Mexican war ran for President in
1856?
Election of 1852
• The Whig Party nominates Mexican war
hero Winfield Scott.
• Scott opposes the Fugitive Slave Act.
• This infuriates Southern Whigs.
• Whig Party splits over slavery.
• Democratic candidate Franklin Pierce
becomes President in 1852.
See http://uselectionatlas.org/USPRESIDENT
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NEW POLITICAL PARTIES
• Know-Nothing Party (Nativism): formed in
1849, favors native-born people over
immigrants, anti-Catholic, and originally a
secret-society.
• Free-Soil Party (Anti-slavery): formed in 1848
to oppose extension of slavery into the
territories.
• Republican Party : Founded in 1854 to oppose
Kansas-Nebraska Act and keep slavery out of
territories. Absorbed parts of the Whigs, Freesoilers, and Know-nothing parties.
"Look here, you, everybody else is quiet and peaceable, and you''re all the time a-kicking up a row!"
Election of 1856
• Search for “Kansas-less” candidates
• Republicans (new party) pick John C. Fremont
PLATFORM: No further extension of slavery
• Democrats pick James Buchanan of Pennsylvania (had
been out of the country during 54)
PLATFORM: Popular sovereignty in territories
• American/Nativists pick ex-Pres. Fillmore took votes from
Fremont in some key states.
PLATFORM: anti-Catholic, anti-immigrant
RESULT: Buchanan wins, Democrats are split N & S
What does it say about the Republican Party?
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1848
Free
Soil
Party
Whigs
N. Whigs
1852
S. Whigs
Democrats
Franklin Pierce
1856
Republican Party
Know-Nothings
Democrats
James Buchanan
REPUBLICAN
PARTY
FACTORS IN THE RISE OF THE
REPUBLICAN PARTY
THE UNION IN PERIL:
CAUSES OF THE CIVIL WAR
CHAPTER 10
Section 4
Slavery and Secession
Why did the South secede?
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