1 Jan 1854 Jahr - Republican Party Forms

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Former democrats after Kansas-Nebraska act and ex-Whigs and Free Soil supporters form this party

-wanted to limit slaver(said it drove down wages and degraded the dignity of manual labor)
-social mobility, middle class (domesticity, religion, capitalist enterprise)

-many abolitionists didn't join (compromised too much)

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