Republican Party Republican Party – (new party) political party formed united under the belief that “no man can own another man...that slavery must.
The Union in Peril. Free-Soil Movement Whigs and Northern Democrats supported Wilmot Proviso Proposed bill to forbid slavery in any new territories taken.
The War with Mexico 1846-1848. When the US admitted Texas to the Union, Mexico cut off all diplomatic ties w/ the US To make is worse, the US insisted.
Sectionalism and the Road to Civil War
The War with Mexico
