They supported it. It was only the Republicans who were against slavery. In addition, the Democrats created the Ku Klux Klan.
they did not allow slavery
democratic
The Democratic Party broke apart in 1860 over the issue of slavery.
The slavery issue caused the northern and southern democratics to split up and have two different democratic parties.
Kansas choosing to become a free state
they did not allow slavery
democratic
Slavery.
The Democratic-Republicans
The Democratic Party broke apart in 1860 over the issue of slavery.
Slavery
abolishment of slavery and the issue of womens rights fragmented the democratic party
jackson was the first candidate for his Democratic Party. Its last candidate was James Buchanan in 1856. It split over slavery. After a civil war, a new opposition party was formed to counter the Republicans and it took the name Democratic Party, but it had few ties with Jackson's Democratic Party.
The Northern Democratic Party was the effect of the splitting of the Democratic Party. As the North kept opposing slavery, the south got aggravated Then, the Democratic party split into the Northern and Southern Democratic Party. In the election of 1860, there were two democrats who ran. One from the south, and one from the north. Because of the Democratic party splitting, the election was won by Republican Abraham Lincoln. If the party had not split, we wouldn't have had Abraham Lincoln as our 16th president.
The effect of Bleeding Kansas on the Democratic party was that it divided the party in half. One half that wanted to expand slavery and the other group didn't.
The slavery issue caused the northern and southern democratics to split up and have two different democratic parties.
The Republican party. Before the republican party existed the Whig party, which shortly withered away when slavery was first introduced, it could not stand against the Democratic Party. Thus giving birth to the Republican Party.