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  1. Feb 9, 2010 · One such meeting, in Wisconsin on March 20, 1854, is generally remembered as the founding meeting of the Republican Party. The Republicans rapidly gained supporters in the North, and in 1856...

  2. Birthplace of the Republican Party at a schoolhouse, in Ripon, Wisconsin. The first anti-Nebraska local meeting where "Republican" was suggested as a name for a new anti-slavery party was held in a Ripon, Wisconsin schoolhouse on March 20, 1854. [1]

  3. Learn how the Republican Party was born in 1856 to oppose slavery and defend the Union, after the Kansas-Nebraska Act and the attack on Charles Sumner. Explore the history, platform and nickname of the new party that shaped the Civil War and Reconstruction.

  4. Jul 7, 2004 · Learn how the Republican Party was born of hostility to slavery in 1854, and how it became the dominant northern party under Abraham Lincoln. The article explains the origins, platform and achievements of the new party in the context of the Kansas-Nebraska Act and the Civil War.

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  6. In 1854, the Republican Party was founded in the Northern United States by forces opposed to the expansion of slavery, ex-Whigs, and ex-Free Soilers. The Republican Party quickly became the principal opposition to the dominant Democratic Party and the briefly popular Know Nothing Party.

  7. 2 days ago · At meetings in Ripon, Wisconsin (May 1854), and Jackson, Michigan (July 1854), they recommended forming a new party, which was duly established at the political convention in Jackson. 1860 U.S. presidential election cartoon

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