Part one of term paper
There are many political parties in the U.S. to day. The republican and the Democratic Party are the main ones everybody knows about. But I'm going to talk about the Republican Party. Founded by a coalition in 1854, the coalition was composed of former members of the Whig, Free-Soil, and Know-Nothing parties, along with Northern Democrat ...

Part two of term paper
... by his failure to oppose immigration. The Republicans joined the Democrats as one of the nation's two major parties in the late 1850s. They gained support as concern grew in the North over Southern influence in Washington, D.C., and they reassured the antiforeign Know-Nothings that they cared about the social impact of immigration. In 1860 their candidate, Abraham Lincoln, was elected to the presidency; the Southern states reacted by seceding from the Union, and the country was plung ...