The Apollo-Soyuz Test Project was a joint United States-U.S.S.R. venture to live and work together on a space platform in orbit.
The Republican party began as a coalition of anti-slavery "Conscience Whigs<span>" and </span>Free Soil Democrats<span> opposed to the </span>Kansas–Nebraska Act<span>, submitted to Congress by </span>Stephen Douglas<span> in January 1854.</span>