1. Creation of the
Republican Party

2. Jacksonian
Democrats
Henry Clay
anti-Jackson
Whig Party

3. Democrat Party vs Whig
Party Era
Kansas
Nebraska
Act
1830
1854

4. Democrat Party vs Whig
Party Era
1854
1830
Advantage: Democrats

5. Democrat Party vs Whig
Party Era
Kansas
Nebraska
Act
1830
1854

7. They what!
Repealed the
Missouri
Compromise!

8. It’s a
demonic
Southern
plot
They what!
Repealed the
Missouri
Compromise!

9. Burning issue in Congress
Slavery
Voting in Congress
Southern
Democrats
Barnburner
Democrats
Southern
Whigs
Northern
Whigs

10. Voting in Congress
Protect
Slavery/
Expand
Slavery
Southern
Democrats
Barnburner
Democrats
Southern
Whigs
Northern
Whigs

11. Voting in Congress
Protect
Slavery/
Expand
Slavery
Southern
Democrats
Southern
Whigs
Barnburner
Democrats Stop Spread of
Slavery to the
Northern
Territories
Whigs

12. Groups Leave the Northern Democrat Party

13. Northern
Abolitionist Whigs
Northern Business
Whigs
Know Nothing
Party

14. Who made up the Republican Party
Free Soilers
Business Whigs
Abolitionists
New
Republican
Party

15. Republicans nominate John C. Freemont
Election of 1856
Free Soil
Free Men
Fremont

17. Northern
disaffected voters

18. Northern
disaffected voters
Northern Democrats
&
Southern Democrats

19. Northern
disaffected voters
Northern Democrats
&
Southern Democrats

20. Republican Party
established