to end slavery
In the 1800s, Liberal Republicans advocated an end to slavery, and full citizenship rights for freed slaves. This viewpoint was closely associated with the Quakers. The term came back again in the 1960s to 1980s to indicate a Republican who broke with some of the party's planks regarding birth control, gay rights, immigration, marijuana, and the goal of making America all Christian. Most of the 'liberal' wing of the Republican party disappeared after the mid-1980s.
martin Luther king jr goal for the civil rights movement was to tell every body that they should me treated equally martin Luther king jr goal for the civil rights movement was to tell every body that they should me treated equally
to recognition that they are their own "country" that is the main purpose why the south started the civil war
to End slavery
The Chinese communist party promoted equality as its main goal. It believed that all the people should be equal and the wealth and resources should be equally distributed to all.
Equality for all men; abolish slavery.
The Republican Party was the political party that emerged in the 1850s with the primary goal of stopping the spread of slavery. Led by figures such as Abraham Lincoln, the party opposed the expansion of slavery into the new western territories and eventually played a crucial role in the abolition of slavery during the Civil War.
to increase the power of the republican party
to increase the power of the republican party
to increase the power of the republican party
Taking power away from the Republican Party
to win the civil war
to end the civil war
From 1868 through the early 1870s the Ku Klux Klan (KKK) functioned as a loosely organized group of political and social terrorists. The Klan's goals included political defeat of the Republican Party and the maintenance of absolute white supremacy in response to newly gained civil and political rights by southern blacks after the Civil War (1861-65)
It depends on the era. Before and during the Civil War the Republican party was the more progressive and liberal of the two major parties, most popular in the North. The Democratic party was the more conservative party that formerly supported slavery. This is not to say the parties are still like this. On the contrary -- by the time LBJ passed the Civil Rights Act of 1964 the two parties' platforms had almost completely flipped. In Congress, multiple Democrat opponents of the Civil Rights Act switched over to the Republican Party. It was now the Republican party that was the more conservative, opposed social change, held onto tradition and was more popular in the South, while the Democratic Party was now the more liberal, progressive one popular in the North. These days when people tout their party as the one [insert pre-1960s president here] was in, it is mostly in name, not in platform. All of this has been a VERY brief summary of an extremely complex series of events stretching over 200 years and is still an evolving situation today. In the future the parties could very well swap platforms again! If you wish to know more about the history of parties' political platforms, I'd recommend reading this detailed article: factmyth.com/factoids/democrats-and-republicans-switched-platforms/
Keep South from Seceding
To fully understand how the Republican Party in the days of Fremont and Lincoln, evolved itself into a "different" ideology, a bit of its history needs to be revisited. The Republican Party had descended mainly from the Whig Party. These people were economic nationalists and were connected to a broad national society. This included merchants, farmers, shopkeepers and manufacturing interests. Its abolitionist wing was always small even in the Civil War days, but they were a very vocal minority. The Republican Party was not really changing in the 1870's. In that sense it was not discarding anything but the antislavery people who no longer had a major and moral goal: the elimination of slavery. The Party was simply reverting to its roots which were basically involved with growing the US economic sectors of the American economy. With of course, not being concerned with the Southern economy.