Grand Old Party - Republican Party History

During the late 1840s and 1850s confilicts over slavery produced sharp divisions within both the whig party and Democratic parties despite the efforts of party leaders such as Henry Clay and Stephen Douglas to develop sectional compromises that would bridge the increasing gulf between the North and South. By 1856 the Whig party had all but disintegrated under the strain, and many Whig polticians and voters, along with antislavery Democrates joined the new Republican Party (The party we have today) which pledged to ban slavery from the western territories. In 1860 the Republicans nominated Abraham Lincoln for the presidency. Lincoln's victory strengthen southern calls for secession from the union, and soon therafter for all out civil war... The Rebulican Party was Born...


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During the 1890s. profound and rapid social and economic changes led to the emergence of a variety of protest parties including the Populist Party, which won the support of hundreds of thousands of voters in the south and west. The Populists appealed mainly to small farmers but also attracted western mining interests and urban workers as well. In the 1892 presidential election, the Populist Party carried four states and elected governers in eight. In 1896 the Populist Party effectively merged with the Democrates who nominated William Jennings Bryan a Democratic senator with pronounced Populist sympathies for the presidency. The Republicans nominated the conservative senator William Mckinley. In the ensuing campaign northern and midwestern buisness made an all out effort to defeat what it saw a radical threat from the populist Democratic alliance. When the dust settled the Republicans had won a resounding victory. The GOP had carried the northern and midwestern states confined the deomcrates to their bastions in the South and far West. For the next thirty six years the Republicans were the nations majority party.

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YES Republicans are for more power to the states and citizens and Democrates want more power to the goverment like their universal health care plan another ticking time bomb if activated.... Gay marriage is just not what we support neither does Islam, Judaism, Christanity, Buddhist, Doism, confusionism, or Hinduism....THE WORLD RELGION.... We also like puting a stop to abortion unlike the dems who want a living baby because it kicks in the belly to be taken out and killed.... Devil sure would like the DEMONocrates.....