Fusion Party is a term that may have a variety of meanings in the political history of the United States.
The Fusion Party was the original name of the Republican Party in the state of Ohio. In 1854, anti-slavery parties were forming in many northern states in opposition to the Kansas Nebraska Act of 1854. While many of these state parties adopted the name "Republican", the Ohio convention adopted the name "Fusionist" or "Fusion Party", which they felt more accurately described the fusion of person from a variety of political backgrounds, including members of the Free Soil Party, the Conscience Whig Party, the Know-Nothing Party, as well as members of the Democratic Party who were opposed to slavery.
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