Explain how the Republican Party was formed.

The Republican Party emerged in 1854 to combat the Kansas–Nebraska Act and the expansion of slavery into American territories. The early Republican Party consisted of northern Protestants, factory workers, professionals, businessmen, prosperous farmers, and after 1866, former black slaves.

whose power in the senate is equal to the power of the speaker of the house?

yes.

explanation:

because it let the japanese know who had the upper hand in the war.