What issue led to the formation of the republican party? what stand did the new party take on that issue?

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Talan Gross

10 February, 16:47

What issue led to the formation of the republican party? what stand did the new party take on that issue?

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By February 1854, anti-slavery Whigs had begun meeting in the upper midwestern states to discuss the formation of a new party. One such meeting, in Wisconsin on March 20, 1854, is generally remembered as the founding meeting of the Republican Party.