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Which groups formed the Republican Party​

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The Republican Party emerged in 1854 to combat the Kansas-Nebraska Act and the expansion of slavery into American territories. The early Republican Party consisted of northern Protestants, factory workers, professionals, businessmen, prosperous farmers, and after 1866, former black slaves.

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