-for a time it seemed that the Whigs might be replaced by this American party-this party arose in reaction to increasing immigration from Europe in the 1840s and 1850s-in 1854, this party capitalized on both fear of immigrants and resentment of the Kansas-Nebraska Act to score big gains in Congress and state legislatures-though they were stronger in the North, they displayed surprising strength in slave states such as Kentucky and Texas-after the 1856 presidential election, most of the southern people of this party joined the Democrats-A number of the northern people of this party joined the Republicans-the movement turned out to be a passing fad

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