The Republican Party was created precisely in 1854, and the main goal of the party was to oppose to the expansion of slavery in the new territories of the Western United States. This is because the Kansas-Nebraska act of 1854 allowed the expansion of Slavery in those territories.
The Republican Party formed a coaltion of anti-slavery (or abolitionist) intellectuals and activists, african americans, businessmen from the northern industrial cities, farmers, and factory workers.
