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How did the formation of the republican party increase the danger of the civil war in the united States

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By February 1854, anti-slavery Whigs had begun meeting in the upper midwestern states to discuss the formation of a new party. ... By 1860, the majority of the Southern slave states were publicly threatening secession if the Republicans won the presidency

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