I was writing a memo just now, I wrote an unique and I just stopped and looked at it and realized it was wrong. My whole world had been turned upside down. Then I found this explanation and all is right with the world.
Liberty Party (1840) wanted to abolish slavery; Free Soil Party (1848) wanted to keep slavery from expanding into Western territories; American Party (Know-Nothings in 1854 & 1856) wanted to reduce immigration (nativism); Constitutional Union Party (1860) wanted a compromise between the North & South.
During the 19th century the Republican Party stood against the extension of slavery to the countryâs new territories and, ultimately, for slaveryâs complete abolition. During the 20th and 21st centuries the party came to be associated with laissez-faire capitalism, low taxes, and conservative social policies.