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The Sectional Crisis:The Sectional Crisis:“Bleeding Kansas”“Bleeding Kansas”
Mr. BachHudson High School
Accelerated United States History
The Birth of the The Birth of the Republican PartyRepublican Party
• Northern Whigs• Northern
Democrats• American Party
(“Know Nothings”)
• Free Soilers
Republican Party Republican Party PlatformPlatform
• Agricultural development of the West (Market Economy)
• Internal improvements to aid the economy
• Land-Grants (Homestead)
• Tariffs for Northern industry
Lincoln the Rail Splitter
“Free Soil, Free Labor, Free Men”