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The Republican Party emerged in 1854 to combat the Kansas–Nebraska Act and the expansion of slavery into American territories. The early Republican Party consisted of African-Americans, northern white Protestants, businessmen, professionals, factory workers, and farmers.
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- abolitionists
- people opposed to the spread of slavery
- people against the Kansas-Nebraska Act
- people worried about the Dred Scott decision
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