Question

What political party emerged for the first time after the 1854 congressional elections and had an overriding commitment to oppose future concessions to southern slave interests?

Answer 1

the Republican Party

By February 1854, anti-slavery Whigs had begun meeting in the upper Midwestern states to discuss the formation of a new party. One such meeting, in Wisconsin on March 20, 1854, is generally remembered as the founding meeting of the Republican Party.