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Wed, Mar 20
|Educational Virtual Event
160th Birthday of the Republican Party
The modern Republican Party had its first meeting on March 20, 1854 in Ripon, Wisconsin.
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Mar 20, 2024, 12:00 PM
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About the event
The Republican Party began as a coalition of anti-slavery Whigs and Free Soilers in opposition to the Kansas-Nebraska Act passed by Democrats in 1854. The act saught to expand slavery into the new western American territories. The first anti-Nebraska local meeting where "Republican" was suggested as a name for a new anti-slavery party was held in a Ripon, Wisconsin schoolhouse on March 20, 1854 on this day 160 years ago.
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