How was the Republican party of Abraham Lincoln formed in the 1850s

Using the book **James Henretta, Erik Hinderaker, Rebecca Edwards, Robert O. Self, America’s History, Volume I: To 1877 (Bedford/ St. Martin’s, Ninth Edition, 2018) [noted as H&H in the syllabus] [ISBN 978-1-319-14793-0 Volume 1]** 1.Identify three ways in which westward territorial expansion of the South transformed southern slave society in the antebellum period? What was the nature of slavery and was it doomed to fade out of existence by these developments? 2.How was the Republican party of Abraham Lincoln formed in the 1850s? How was it related through the various realignments of parties to the first republican party of Thomas Jefferson? What role did the annexation of Texas and the War with Mexico play in these realignments? 3.Choose two of the readings of reformers (Owen, Hawthorne, Emerson, the women at Seneca Falls, Finney etc.), and discuss what the author thought had gone wrong and should be reformed and how they hoped to achieve this? What did their ideas have to do with each other? **(four paragraphs)** 4.The American Republic was a polity based on equality among citizens who constituted “the people” working for the common good. Yet, almost from its origins, that polity faced countervailing dynamics and pressures as a result of various actions of the people themselves. Examine at least three economic, social, or cultural (not political) developments undertaken by the people that increased the underlying tensions and frictions in American life before 1860. How did these tensions affect politics through the late 1850s? Were these tensions and frictions resolved by 1860?