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Why Did The Republican Party Form

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The Republican Party formed in 1854 to oppose the extension of slavery.
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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 theRepublican Party.
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