2 verb A word or group of words that modifies another word describes or classifies something, or restricts the meaning of the word. It is a rule of English that adjectives generally precede the noun they modify: we say `a good cry', not `a cry good'.
The Republican Party was formed by Free Soilers who did not want slavery to spread into the western territories. They were not friendly toward blacks, they just did not want to compete for jobs or lower the wages available.
it is often called the grand old party or the gop founded in ripon wisconsin in 1854 by anti slavery expansion activists and modernizers the republican party quickly surpassed the whig party as the principal opposition to the democratic party