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. Hope I Helped! :)
Mark Antony expertly used rhetoric, or the language of persuasion, to provoke the Roman crowd into a riot. Antony was a very powerful speaker who held the attention of mass audiences.
