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In the 1848 election, why were Whigs and Democrats forced to take a stand on slavery?

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By the time of the 1848 election, the Whigs and the Democrats were forced to take a stand on slavery because territorial expansion in the US had made the salvery issue unavoidable--each new state had to determine whether to be slave or free.
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