Chapter 70: Grass roots for a Republican Party appear in protests against the K-N Act. 

Douglas’ decision to renege on the 1820 Missouri Compromise draws widespread outrage across the North.

From Ripon, Wisconsin to Jackson, Michigan and Bangor, Maine, local citizens gather together under a new banner popularized by Horace Greeley as a Republican Party. It demands a Wilmot-like, unequivocal ban on slavery in the western lands.

Back in Illinois a former one term Whig Congressman, Abraham Lincoln, decides to enter the national political arena.