Birth of the Republican Party

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Article abstract: The new party welded together fragments of Whigs, Know-Nothings, and free-soil interests and presaged the sectionalization that eventually brought civil war.

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The development of the United States’ political parties went through several stages during the antebellum period of U.S. history. During the Washington Administration, domestic and foreign issues combined to produce the Federalists, led by Alexander Hamilton, and the Democratic-Republicans, under the leadership of Thomas Jefferson. Federalism had its day in the...

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