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1. Republican Party

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   The Republican Party emerged in the 1850s from the dissolution of the Whig Party and absorbed numerous Free Soil advocates. The party's founding platform centered on preventing slavery's spread westward, a position that distinguished it from the dominant Democratic Party of the era. The election of Abraham Lincoln in 1860 marked the party's first successful presidential campaign, though his victory precipitated the American Civil War.
   During the Reconstruction era fo…