Republican Party History

politics

The Republican Party emerged in the mid-1850s as a response to intensifying sectional conflict over slavery, particularly the expansion of slavery into western territories. Its...

U.S. Political History

In the decade before the Civil War, few developments mattered more in American politics than the rapid growth of the Republican Party. Within a few years of its founding in the...

politics-government

The Republican Party formed in the mid 1850s in response to the expansion of slavery into western territories. It united former Whigs, Free Soil leaders, anti slavery Democrats,...

political-history

Abraham Lincoln belonged to the Republican Party, which emerged in the 1850s to oppose the expansion of slavery into western territories. As the party's first president, Lincoln...