All of the following were important platforms of the nineteenth-century Republican party EXCEPT
a. opposition to the spread of slavery.
b. preservation of the Union.
c. abolition of slavery.
d. post-Civil War reconstruction.
e. government pension for all Civil War veterans.
Answer: e. government pension for all Civil War veterans.
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