Timeline

Y/M/D Description Association Composition Place Locale Food Event
Y/M/D Description Association Composition Place Locale Food Event
1854/01/00 Senator Stephen Douglas of Illinois introduces the Kansas-Nebraska Bill, which permits the extension of slavery beyond the limits of the Missouri Compromise. The bill will proved to be the catalyst for the formation of the Republican Party. Genesis Old Senate Chamber United States Capitol Slavery In America
1854/03/20 People meet at the Little White Schoolhouse on Blackburn Street to organize opposition to the Kansas-Nebraska Bill and form a great irresistible Northern party to consolidate all shades of antislavery opinion under the name Republican. Genesis Little White Schoolhouse Ripon, WI Slavery In America
1854/07/06 Citizens meet in Jackson, Michigan, to organize opposition to the Kansas-Nebraska Bill at a large grove of oak trees, then on the edge of town. A platform is approved and nominees for office are elected. Party Members Jackson, MI Michigan
1856/00/00 The Republican Party emerges as a national organization with the explorer and hero of the day, John C Fremont, as standard bearer of the new party. Begun
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