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The Election of 1856: A Victorious Defeat

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Channel: misesmedia · 2017 · News & Politics

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The passage of the Kansas-Nebraska act drove many northerners to form Anti-Nebraska coalitions that ultimately yielded the Republican Party. The election of 1856 did not yield a Republican presidential victory, but it did produce a party that, through compromise and political maneuvering, was able to emerge as the dominant new party to compete with the bitterly divided Democrats.

Chris Calton gives a revisionist look at the antebellum period leading up to the Civil War. This is the ninth episode in the second season of Historical Controversies.

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