1. How did passage of the Kansas Nebraska act contribute to the rise of the Republican Party and the demise of the Whigs? (Crafting Arguments)

The Kansas-Nebraska Act wrecked the Compromise of 1850 and created deep divisions within the Democratic Party. The Republican Party was initially organized as a northern protest against Douglas's Kansas-Nebraska Act. Third-party entry in the election of 1848 that opposed slavery expansion and prepared the way for the Republican party.