Why was slavery an important issue for the new republican party ?

In many ways, slavery was THE issue for the new Republican party.

Many, if not most, historians see the Republican party as being formed as a coalition of interest groups opposed to slavery in the new Western territories (and soon to be states).

Divides in the early party were over what to do about slavery overall, but there was general agreement that slavery could not and should not expand into the western states.

two months after his defeat of napoleon bonaparte's colonial forces, jean-jacques dessalines proclaims the independence of saint-domingue, renaming it haiti after its original arawak name. in 1791, a slave revolt erupted on the french colony, and toussaint-louverture, a former slave, took control of the rebels.

2. a land bridge connected asia and north america thousands of years ago.

4. crossing the land bridge would have been simple for the first migrants.

5. people might have crossed a land bridge while hunting animals.