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200: American Civil War: The Causes (Part 1)

The Rest Is History

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The Whig Party

For people not familiar with the intricacies of american party politics in henother any great line, well, including me, a the system such as we recognize it now does not exist. The whig party ran its last national candidate in 18 52 presidential election at trying to repeat the trick of nominating a famous general from the mexican war and hoping that he got elected despite the that he was a whig. They failed in 18 52, and were never able again to run a presidential candidate. And that that the collapse of the whig party as as a national political party which had the support of slaveholders in the south and non slaveholder in the north. It is perceived as

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