The Republican Party first appeared on the presidential ballot in 1856, following the Kansas-Nebraska act of 1854. With the dismemberment of the Whig party and many populous meetings in the upper Midwestern states, the Republican Party opposed to slavery in the western territories was formed. The Republican Party quickly gained popularity in the northern states and, in 1856, Republican presidential candidate, John C. Fremont won 11 out of 16 northern states. The Know-Nothing Party and their candidate, Abraham Lincoln, were later assimilated into the Republican Party and Mr. Lincoln was elected president in 1860.
The Republican Party sought an economy built upon industry and was morally repulsed by slavery. The Democratic Party had at it roots a belief that an agrarian lifestyle was the most noble and the southern Democrats needed slaves to work their plantations. And so, slavery, the long festering birth defect of our new nation, sought remediation by a civil war that would pit brother against brother and, ultimately, cost President Lincoln his life.
After the Civil War, the party became know as the “Grand Old Party” (GOP). The Republicans passed the Thirteenth, Fourteenth and Fifteenth Amendments of the Constitution and a radical reconstruction of the South was promoted. In order to secure the votes of 4 southern states in the 1876 presidential election, the Republicans abandoned the policies of radical reconstruction and black civil rights.
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