20 март 1854 г. - The Republican Party is founded in Ripon, Wisconsin following demonstrations sparked by the publication of “Appeal of the Independent Democrats” in various newspapers (see above 1/19/1854). A mass meeting “Under the Oaks” was later held in the outskirts of Jackson, Michigan on 06/06/1854, during the decline of the Whig Party. The new Republican Party is composed of former Whigs, Free-Soilers, and northern Democrats dismayed with the passage of the Kansas-Nebraska Act and slavery’s potential expansion
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