| republican party definitions |
| # | Definition | Sets |
| 1 | political party that believed in the non-expansion of slavery and comprised of whigs, northern democrats, and free-soilers, in defiance to the slave powers | 23 sets |
| 2 | political party formed to oppose extending slavery in the territories | 11 sets |
| 3 | the younger of two major political parties in the united states | 5 sets |
| 4 | one of the two major american political parties. it emerged in the 1850s as an antislavery party and consisted of former northern whigs and antislavery democrats. | 4 sets |
| 5 | political party formed in the 1850s to stop the spread of slavery in the west | 3 sets |
| 6 | dedicated to keeping slavery out of the territories, but they championed a wider range of issues, including the further development of national roads, more liberal land distribution in the west, and increased protective tariffs | 3 sets |
| 7 | political party, formed in 1854 by opponets of slavery. | 3 sets |
| 8 | 1860: sensed victory with the democrats divided, courted white voters by opposing both slavery and racial equality. | 2 sets |
| 9 | political party that evolved from the whig party, coming to power after lincoln's election. it is one of the two current major political parties | 2 sets |
| 10 | organized to stop spread of slavery into new terr. began in 1854. a. lincoln was the republican candidate in 1860 | 2 sets |
| 11 | this political party is very conservative and on the far right of the spectrum. | 2 sets |
| 12 | a party of the united states that was anti-slavery | 2 sets |
| 13 | * consisted of free soilers, northern democrats, and antislavery whigs. *goal- keep slavery out of northern terrritories | 2 sets |
| 14 | the party that resided prominently in the north and, in most cases, did not support slavery | 2 sets |
| 15 | effective organized | 2 sets |
| 16 | antislavery political party that formed in the 1850s | 2 sets |
| 17 | side with the federal gov't | 2 sets |
| 18 | party started in the 1850s that supported antislavery issues | 2 sets |
| 19 | founded as a direct response to the kansas- nebraska act. northern and western moderates who were united in their opposition to slavery. the final form of the whig and federalist parties. john c fremont was their first presidential nominee. | 2 sets |
| 20 | formed in 1856, john fremont was the candidate, were against slavery, wanted to repeal the fugitive slave act | 2 sets |
| 21 | a political party made up of people who wanted to keep the western territory free of slavery | 2 sets |
| 22 | 1854, fromed out of the anger of the kansas - nebraska act (mostly ex-whigs), wanted to keep slavery from spreading to the territories | 2 sets |
| 23 | new political party created by free soilers in 1854 to keep slavery from spreading to new territories | 2 sets |
| 24 | a new political party which develped in the 1850's | 2 sets |
| 25 | lincoln, against epanision of slavery | 2 sets |
| 26 | mid-west. moral protest of slavery contained: whigs, democrats, free soilers, know-nothings, people mad at kansas-nebraska act | 1 set |
| 27 | what: sprung up in the midwest as a moral protest against slavery. contained disgruntled: whigs, democrats, free-soilers, know-nothings, and people mad at the kansas-nebraska act. | 1 set |
| 28 | anti-slavery political party founded just before the civil war; its candidate for president in 1860 was abraham lincoln--not to be confused with the modern republican party | 1 set |
| 29 | opposed expansion of slavery. made up of northern whigs, free-north democrats, free-soil party | 1 set |
| 30 | a combination of the free soil and whig party | 1 set |
| 31 | the poitical party made up of antislavery democrats, free-soilers, and whigs was the | 1 set |
| 32 | they firmly opposed to expansion of slavery. this party worked with know-nothings to defeat democrats in congressional elections of 1854. they nominated john c. freemont as their candidate. | 1 set |
| 33 | a political party united against the spread of slavery to the west | 1 set |
| 34 | party of the north, for free soil | 1 set |
| 35 | partido republicano | 1 set |
| 36 | formed in response to kansas-nebraska act, banned in the south, john c fremont first presidential candidate | 1 set |
| 37 | the party that had many different names and was opposed to slavery | 1 set |
| 38 | party against spread of slavery in the west | 1 set |
| 39 | a political party whose main goal was to keep slavery out of the western territories and hoped to end slavery in the south. | 1 set |
| 40 | made of some former free-soil members, democrats, and whigs, represented by licoln | 1 set |