By 1856, the republican party was a coalition of antislavery democrats, northern whigs, free soilers, and know-nothings. the republicans were a mixed group, but they all opposed the further expansion of slavery and quickly rose as the major alternative to the democratic party throughout the north. what was the republican party’s platform and beliefs regarding slavery?

Explanation:Slavery spawned a social order only consisting of degraded slaves, poor whites with no hope of advancement, and idle aristocrats.

"Free labor" northern society offered opportunity to move up in life by allowing the laborer to move up to the status of landowner or craftsman.

Republicans believed that "the Slave Power," the proslavery political leadership of the South, posed a greater danger to American liberty and aspirations than immigrants and Catholicism.

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