What political party emerged when anti-slavery whigs and free-soil democrats joined forces? republican party federalist party libertarian party democratic party

The Whigs, Democrats, and Free Soilers joined together to form the Republican Party in 1854.

The Republican Party had emerged as a powerful political party with its new reformed Ideology between 1854 and 1860, the party which was a mixture of conservatives and progressivors fought against the reactionaries who are the south. the party then stayed for 40 years in power until the democratic party started to rise