Emgernce of republicans essay

Question 1

Background

Answer 1

-the passing of the Kansas Nebraska’s act 1854 led to the collapse of the Whigs as a political force.
-therefore two main political parties emerged in the north to fill the void left by the demise of the Whigs one being the nativity “know nothing party” and the other the Republican Party
-this newly formed rebulican party was not popular in the south due to their views on slavery

Question 2

Factors

Answer 2

-northern claims on ‘slave power conspiracy’
-Kansas Nebraska act
-collapse of Whigs party

Question 3

Northern claims of ‘slave power’ conspiracy ku

Answer 3

-Democratic Party appeared to be committed to advancing the cause of slavery hence the slave power conspiracy which dominated northern thinking
-on may 19th and 20th , 1856 Bleeding Sumner took place, were sumner carried out his “crime against Kansas speech”where he denounced not only the Kansas Nebraska act but “slave power”
-at this time democrats had the presidency for nearly 50 years pushing many to want a new party in power
Ev -

Question 4

Northern claims on ‘slave power conspiracy’ historiography

Answer 4

Farmer belives that slave power conspiarcy was an article of faith for all rebupilcans

William gienapp argues believably that it united republicans

Question 5

Kansas Nebraska act 1854 ku

Answer 5

• Stephen Douglas repeated the repealed the Missouri compromise, thus opening up the potential for slavery to exist in the unorganised terrortories of the Louisiana purchase and opened the idea of pop sovereignty
  -bleeding Kansas, one the events that took place was the sack of Lawrence on may 21st 1856 were pro-slavery settlers led by Douglas county sheriff Samual j.jaus attacked and ransacked Lawrence, Kansas
  -locomotion vs Topeka in Kansas. Locomotion was pro slavery and Topeka anti they were extremely close in distance
  Ev-

Question 6

Kansas Nebraska act 1854 historian

Answer 6

Hugh Tullch suggests the birth of a Republican Party occurred in the aftermath of the Kansas Nebraska countary, republicans attracted those opposed to southern determination to maintain slabery

Farmer suggests that SD didnt expect northern outrage and weakened his own party

Question 7

Collapse of Whig party KU

Answer 7

• Whig party collapsed following passage of Kansas Nebraska
• rise of new political parties in the north won mass support in the 1864 elections - whigs ceased to be a main political force
  -most northern whigs joined republicans gaining them mass support
  -division of whigs into sections following Kansas Nebraska act - issues of temperance, anti immigrants, any Catholicism fatally divided them and allowed republican to rise
  Ev- many southern Whigs joined the nativist American party instead

Question 8

Collapse of Whigs historians

Answer 8

McPherson “Kansas Nebraska finishes off the Whig party and have birth to a new entirely northern party”