CAS HI 151 Lecture Notes - Lecture 25: Border Ruffian, Free Soil Party, Party System
15 Aug 2016
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Only on the rights of the individual could the nation continue to exist as one entity. This division is central to our politics, then and now. Both localists and naturalists considered themselves patriots and heirs to the. So there had been tensions, but not enough to tear the country apart. This division, between democrats and whigs, began to become unclear with the expansion of the us through the mexican war. The whig party collapsed, and the republican party emerged in its place in the. The republican party was able to absorb the free soilers and others. The republican party was a containment of slavery party. But it was not an immediate abolition party. Republican party was strong in the midwest and in the new england area. Ran their first ticket in 1856, but lost. The party system split among territorial lines. Democrats and republicans began to fight over whether the new western states will be slave or free.
