Which political party was formed opposing slavery?

I am a Republican, a black, dyed in the wool

Republican, and I never intend to belong to any other party than the

party of freedom and progress.

-Frederick Douglass

Political Party Formed In 1854

The Republican Party opposed slavery in the 1860's and opposed racial integration in the 1960's.

there have been no political activities that had the isssue of slavery on the fee tag. maximum if not each and each and every of the founding fathers were evil, murdering, kidnapping, rapists who used slavery to their income, "to genuinely sit down on their asssses and get fat even as others did their paintings for them." in the route of the civil warfare their were more advantageous abolishonists contained in the Republican social gathering than the Democrat social gathering. After the warfare the Reps needed to reconstruct the south alongside more advantageous egalitarian strains even as teh dems preffered a go back to servitude for the ex slaves...Blacks who ought to vote for the duration of and in simple terms after slavery voted Republican, and did so untill the Nineteen Thirties. the universal activities began contained in the 1920-30's even as FDR took workplace. He created a sparkling sense of social dedication contained in the Dem social gathering. The Reps grew to change into recognizable with Nixon who performed on the fears of the problem-free guy, particularly contained in the South. Barry Goldwater ran for President as a Republican not lengthy after Nixon's loss to Kennidy. Goldwater's segregationalist sentiments were given the Southern vote and adjusted the demographics of both activities continually...

Good questions, but I would add, which political party started as a single issue third party?

The Republicans; Abe Lincoln and Susan B. Anthony were Republicans. And by the way, the late Sen. Barry Goldwater, R-AZ, widely known as one of the fathers of modern conservatism, co-founded the Arizona chapter of the NAACP while Al Gore's daddy and Robert Byrd protested the 1964 Civil Rights bill.

The Republican Party did not exist in 1848. There had been a different party called "Republican" or "Democratic-Republican" from about 1790 to about 1836, but that party's story will be covered separately.

The exact founding of the Republican Party is disputed, but aspects of the party were in existence around 1852 and its founding convention was on July 6, 1854 at Jackson, Michigan., In the fall of 1854 it elected 40 members to the U.S. House of Representatives (more if you count representatives co-nominated by the American and Republican parties). By the elections of 1856 it had gone from third party status to being the main rival of the Democrats.

What happened between 1848 and 1854 that could create a full-blown political party in so short a time? There were two main causes: the slavery issue and the rise and fall of the American Party, mistakenly called the Know-Nothing Party. Like the Republican Party, the American Party came into existence quickly and elected a large number of officials; it had the most members of any political party in the U.S. House of Representatives in 1854.

The Whigs, the number 2 party since the 1820's, had been formed in opposition to the Democrats as led by Andrew Jackson and Martin Van Buren. The party was not formed around any particular principles. Led originally by Henry Clay, it was a loose coalition of men who sought office for any of a number of reason. In the north it included abolitionists and people opposed to the expansion of slave territories, and those favoring protective, high tariffs (customs duties); in the south it favored slavery and lower tariffs. This worked fine until about 1850, but the renewed struggle over extending slavery to new western states and territories demanded that men chose sides. The southern Whigs deserted the party to join the Democrats, who were clearly the party of slavery. The northern Whigs mostly hopped on the American Party on their way to becoming Republicans.

But the core of the Republican Party appears to have evolved from the Free Soil Party. It had grown out of the free soil movement, which stood against extensions of slavery. The failure of the Whigs to take a stand, as a national party, against extending slavery left a political opening which the Free Soil Party filled. They also attracted anti-slavery northern Democrats. An important part of their platform was free homesteads for settlers from federal lands. Their slogan was "Free soil, free speech, free labor, and free men." Though they did not, as a party, advocate abolishing slavery in the southern states, their party was closest to an abolitionist view. In 1848 their presidential candidate, Martin Van Buren, ran a distant third but received 291,623 votes. They sent two Senators and fourteen Representatives to Congress. In 1852 they ran John P. Hale for president, but received only 155,825 votes. Around 1852 they merged into the Republican Party.

The American Party was formed primarily as an anti-immigrant and anti-Catholic group. Its recruits came mostly from the Whig Party, though many Democrats joined as well. Founded as a secret organization, so secret they came to be called "Know Nothings," they did not come out as the American Party until after their great successes in local and congressional elections of 1854. In 1856 Millard Filmore was their presidential candidate, gaining 8974,534 votes, one of the best third-party showings in U.S. history. But they were divided by the slavery issue, and by 1858 most American Party adherents in the north merged into the Republican Party, while in the south they rejoined the Democrats.

Though not a separate party, the abolitionists were an important component in creating the Republican Party. The idea of abolishing slavery was old; it had been declared abolished in Great Britain by the Somerset Decision of 1771, which helped precipitate the American Revolution. The abolition of slavery in all British colonies in 1833 also put Americans on a low moral footing. The debates about extending slavery to the western territories and new states made everyone in America aware of the abolitionist stance.

So basically slavery was an issue that thrust the Republicans into the Whitehouse. Much like the T people are doing with numerous issues.They weren't for abolishing slavery but wanted to stops it's growth westward. We are talking almost two hundred years ago, a lot has changed. For example the Democrats had solid support in the south until the 1950's or about the time of the civil rights movement. Technically the party of the South was the Democrats then and the Republicans now.

So perhaps the party of the south was different but it still has the same philosophies.

If you want to prove the Republicans are the good guys and the Dems as bad perhaps you should site examples from at least the 20th century.

What we call republican back then was a little different, but they first opposed slavery.

Party ideals have almost reversed since then, and "liberals" would be the first to include most of those things...

Its Free-Soil

simple Honest Abe Lincoln the GOP he paid for it with his life, which is far superior then vain empty promises and words