1856 United States presidential election
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The 1856 United States presidential election was a pivotal contest marked by the rise of the Republican Party, the sectional crisis over slavery, and the fragmentation of older parties amid growing tensions that foreshadowed the Civil War.
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Know-Nothing movement
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