Question

In the 1840s and 1850s, the United States witnessed the realignment of its long-standing two-party system. Why did the old system fall apart, what emerged to take its place, and how did this process contribute to the coming of the Civil War?

Answer 1

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The traditional Whig and Democratic parties struggled to hold together as new parties. The republican party emerged. Politicians fixed their attention on the expansion of slavery. The Whig party couldn't please both the north and south and they were no longer a strong national party.

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