Many of the old Northern Whigs moved to the new Republican party. The Southern Whigs formed the Constitutional Union Party and became Democrats after the Civil war.
Carpetbaggers
The Republican Party was originally founded to promote the policy of slavery containment. In 1860, the Republican candidate, Abraham Lincoln, won the presidential election because the Democratic Party split their vote between three different candidates. After Lincoln was victorious in the American Civil War, the Republican Party became the respected competitor to the Democratic Party and former Whigs moved into the Republican Party.The party continues to exist because in the aftermath of President Franklin D. Roosevelt's promotion of left-wing economic policies to remedy the Great Depression in the 1930s and President Lyndon B. Johnson's promotion of Civil Rights in the 1960s, the Republican Party became a repository for those who opposed the increasing left-ward direction of the country. In the 1980s, President Ronald Reagan served to effectively demarcate the conservative vision that would define the Republican Party until the mid-2010s. At that point, the Republican Party was effectively hijacked by the Trump Nativist Movement.
Lincoln was the first Republican president, elected in 1860.He was a member of the Whig Party from 1832 to 1854 before there was a Republican Party . He was nominated by the National Union Party in 1864.This party was really just a name-change for the Republican party which was trying to attract anyone who did not want to end the war with a truce.
The Chinese party was the Nationalist Party after they were defeated by the Communist Party at the close of the civil war which concluded following World War II.
Scalawags-white Southerners who joined the party-were mostly former Unionists Carpetbaggers were Northerners who moved South after the war to reform Southern society or to make a fortune. The third group was African Americans eager to vote
Scalawags-white Southerners who joined the party-were mostly former Unionists Carpetbaggers were Northerners who moved South after the war to reform Southern society or to make a fortune. The third group was African Americans eager to vote
It was equipped with two wheelsfor moving on the ground.
The Republican party was originally liberal when it was founded by members of the Old Whig party. As the party moved to the conservative side in the 1940's, some liberals remained in the Republican party, and still act as an anchor to keep the party from moving to rightward on the political spectrum.
Reagan was initially a registered Democrat; he became a Republican in 1962 and was elected Governor of California and President of the US as a Republican
The Whig party had split over the issue of slavery and had lost support in both the North and South. The Democratic Party, which had survived numerous crises in its history, was still alive, though scarred. The new Republican Party moved within striking distance of the presidency. © The Americans: Reconstrucrion through the 20th Century. Page 169
The Whig party had split over the issue of slavery and had lost support in both the North and South. The Democratic Party, which had survived numerous crises in its history, was still alive, though scarred. The new Republican Party moved within striking distance of the presidency. © The Americans: Reconstrucrion through the 20th Century. Page 169