In Ripon, Wisconsin, former members of the Whig Party meet to establish a new party to oppose the spread of slavery into the western territories. The Whig Party, which was formed in 1834 to oppose the “tyranny” of President Andrew Jackson, had shown itself incapable of coping with the national crisis over slavery. With the successful introduction of the Kansas-Nebraska Bill of 1854, an act that dissolved the terms of the Missouri Compromise and allowed slave or free status to be decided in the territories by popular sovereignty, the Whigs disintegrated. By February 1854, anti-slavery Whigs had begun meeting in the upper midwestern states to discuss the formation of a new party. One such meeting, in Wisconsin on March 20, 1854, is generally remembered as the founding meeting of the Republican Party.
A. Americans did not feel connected to the whole country.
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Dubbed the “Corps of Discovery” by President Thomas Jefferson, the expedition, over the next two years, would travel over 8,000 miles into the wilds of the Pacific Northwest and back. Along the way it would chart the course of Manifest Destiny, transforming the continent of North America forever.
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Answer: Western civilizations have unbreakable ties to Judaism.
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Judaism, as the oldest monotheistic religion, greatly influenced Christianity as the dominant religion of Western civilization. Elements of Judaism are accepted in dogmatic understandings of the Western world, so the Old Testament is a direct Judaism product and is an integral part of Catholicism. The suffering of Jews during World War II also formed certain connections with the Western world. The general notion of freedom began to be viewed through the prism of the Holocaust against the Jews. Many scholars, artists, and politicians from the ranks of the Jews brought the Jewish tradition, culture, and history closer to the peoples of Western civilizations.
