Thursday, January 5, 2012

Republican Party Research

Facts/Details

  • Republicans established the Transcontinental Railroad.
  • Republicans passed the 14th Amendment
  • They opposed Plessy v. Ferguson
  • A Republican wrote Brown v. Board of Education
  • Passed 1957 Civil Rights Act
  • Refer to themselves as the 'Peoples Party"
  • The symbol for the party is the Elephant
  • They pride themselves in adopting causes such as abolition, free speech, and women's suffrage.
  • Thomas Nast, a cartoonist for "Harper's Weekly", created the elephant symbol.
  • The Republicans believe individuals, not government, can make the best decisions.
  • They are anti-big government.
  • They have a history in advocating equality. IE: women's rights, integration.
  • They became a national party in 1856
  • they are called Republicans because it alludes to equality
  • They freed the slaves.

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