Which party arose demanding that slavery be excluded from all the territories?
AThe Free Soil Party
BThe Democratic Party
CThe Whig Party
DThe Republican Party
Answer & Solution
Correct answer: D. The Republican Party
1. The Kansas-Nebraska bill split the older parties over slavery in the territories.
2. The Whig Party, which had straddled that question, sank to its death.
3. In its stead a powerful new organization arose, the Republican Party.
4. Its primary demand was that slavery be excluded from all the territories.
5. The Free Soil Party of 1848 had asked only to limit, localize and discourage slavery.
_Source: An Outline of American History (U.S. Information Agency, 1990, public domain), section THE SPLIT GROWS DEEPER_
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