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Why did sectional tension strengthen during the 1850s?
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Why did sectional tension strengthen during the 1850s? During the 1850s, there was instability within political parties. The decade saw the collapse of one of the two major parties, The Whigs, the split of the other, The Democrats, and the creation of a new party, The Republicans. The Compromise of 1850, aided by the Breakdown of the Party System, helped trigger other significant events, such as Bleeding Kansas and the Fugitive Slave Law. All of these helped to further the strife between North and South during the 1850s, but all carry one theme within them: slavery. The Breakdown of the Party System, as mentioned above, saw the collapse of the Whigs. This occurred due to the rise of the Know-Nothing Party, who were anti-immigrant. Their policies reflected the high immigration suffered by the Union between 1846 and 1855, so they were more of a Northern party, since the South didn't...
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