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Can you indicate how the Whig party disintegrated because of it's divisions over slavery?

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Anti-Slavery members were angered by their indifference to the sectional issue, and so moved to the Free-Soil Party-no more slavery on new soil, leaving the Whig Party broken. It was completely destroyed when the Kansas-Nebraska Act was passed
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