CSPAN2 Book Discussion On Big Tent April 19, 2014
The idea of ending slavery. The Republican Party began as an Abolitionist Coalition of northern quakes free soil democrats the American Party and other antislavery groups. At a meeting in ribbon wisconsin in march of 1854 abolitionists express their alarm at the spread of slavery into the kansas nebraska territories and they floated a name for new political party, the Republican Party. This was march of 1854. Just eight months later, the new party had taken over the house of representatives and many statehouses before as well. Pillars and you can probably rattle them off if you follow the main...