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! :)
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Businessmen during the Gilded Age, in the late 19th century, supported relaxed immigration laws because they bring unskilled workers in the country. Industries in the late 19th century, employed immigrants as labors because they reduced the costs of production by paying them less money, which profited the industrialists. The supply of cheap labor was one of the reasons for the growth of industrialization in America.
