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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 http://teachpol.tcnj.edu/amer_pol_hist/ti/000000b5.jpg 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? http://teachpol.tcnj.edu/amer_pol_hist/fi/000000bd.htm 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? HW: #1