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When the Republican Party formed, what was its primary goal?

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The Republican Party was founded in the mid‑1850s (formally organized in 1854) primarily to stop the spread of slavery into the western territories. It grew out of opposition to the Kansas–Nebraska Act and the repeal of the Missouri Compromise and united anti‑slavery Whigs, Free Soilers, and anti‑Nebraska Democrats around a “free soil/free labor” platform — preventing slavery’s expansion rather than immediate nationwide abolition.