Question 2 • LCS-Teacher Remediation-M/J United States History_Q3
The Republican Party formed in the 1850s and supported stopping the spread of slavery into the western territories. It also favored modernizing the nation through measures such as building railroads and supporting economic development. It opposed the Kansas-Nebraska Act and the Dred Scott decision, and Abraham Lincoln became its presidential candidate later, in 1860.
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