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Ads by Google      Encyclopedia article on United States Republican Party [EncycloZine] The post-war emergence of the United States as one of two superpowers and rapid social change caused the Republican Party to divide into a conservative faction (dominant in the West and Southeast) and a liberal faction (dominant in New England) – combined with a residual base of inherited progressive Midwestern Republicanism active throughout the century. It also actively courts members of the United States Libertarian Party to get its members to join the Republican Party and this faction to increase the voice of libertarianism within the party. For the older Republican Party, which is now known as the Democratic Republican Party, see United States Democratic-Republican Party. http://encyclozine.com/United_States_Republican_Party      Democratic Party: Definition and Much More From Answers.com The Party is currently (as of 2005) the minority party in the United States Senate, United States House of Representatives, and governorships. In the early 20th century, the traditional symbol of the Democratic Party in Midwestern states such as Indiana, Kentucky and Ohio was the rooster, as opposed to the Republican eagle. The Democratic Party is one of the two major political parties in the United States. http://www.answers.com/topic/democratic-party   (7963 words)      History 221 Supplementary Materials 2 The evaporation became evident in the decline of the Federalist Party and the alteration of the Republican stance toward the precepts of Hamiltonianism. The Kansas-Nebraska Act and the subsequent development of the Republican Party had a drastic impact upon the bisectional equilibrium of the Democratic Party. The Republican Party replaced the Whig Party as the major opponent of the Democrats. http://www.middlesex.cc.nj.us/faculty/John_Kruszewski/221supplementary2.html   (1558 words)      Political Parties in the 1850's: the essay The Whig party had always been a coalition of diverse interests united in opposition to the Democrats, and they were finding it harder than ever to find common ground among themselves. The Whig party totally disintegrated to be replaced by the Know-Nothings, Free-Soilers, and eventually the Republicans, while the Democrats survived as a predominantly Southern party. By 1855, the year after the Kansas-Nebraska Act, there were no more Whigs, as those who once belonged to that party became Free-Soilers, Know-Nothings, or even Democrats, and by the late years of the decade the North was almost all Republican and the South almost all Democratic. http://home.nycap.rr.com/snorktopia/bigdbq/essay.htm   (1033 words)      Getting the Message Out! Political Culture: Nativism Middle-class and elitist gentlemen, who sniffed that socially inferior immigrants lacked the intelligence and experience to be good republican citizens, occasionally gathered in exclusive nativist fraternities such as the Order of United Americans or the United Sons of America. During and after 1856, however, most northern Know Nothings were absorbed into the Republican party, and they would help elect Lincoln president in 1860, even though Lincoln himself had nothing but disdain for Know Nothings' anti-immigrant and anti-Catholic bigotry. In certain cities like Baltimore, New York, and Philadelphia, for example, anti-immigrant American Republican and Native American parties appeared in the 1830s and 1840s. http://dig.lib.niu.edu/message/ps-nativism.html   (340 words)      Republican G.O.P. history His Republican Party was the party of liberalism, of slashing the national debt and national defense expenditures and the end of the National Bank. The modern Republican Party was born on March 20, 1854 in Ripon, Wisconsin as an outgrowth of the dissolved Whig party, choosing the name to recall to mind the founders; no matter that the aims were now different. The Republicans therefore became strongly identified as the party of Lincoln, the party that freed the slaves, and the party that won the war. http://ca.essortment.com/gophistory_rjoo.htm   (1472 words)      CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Knownothingism Opposed to them in that election were the Democratic party and the newly organized Republican party, both of whom had expressed their dissent from Native American principles. In Congress efforts were made to restrict the benefits of the Homestead Laws to those who were actual citizens of the United States, and the old-time proposal to extend the period of residence to twenty-one years before a person could be admitted to citizenship was constantly agitated. Although the existence of the new party was generally known, and its political activities soon became manifest, all inquiries by outsiders respecting its organization and purpose, and especially as to the names of members, were met by those identified with the movement with the answer: "I don't know". http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/08677a.htm   (3150 words)      Connecticut's Heritage Gateway The Democrats, for example, attacked the Bank of the United States in 1832, an issue that had little interest for the average man in Connecticut. The followers of Andrew Jackson had already organized the Democratic party in several states in the 1820s before a group of young men, led by Gideon Welles, did the same thing in Connecticut. The Republican party inherited most of the former Whigs, and the Democratic party made a remarkable recovery after the Civil War. http://www.ctheritage.org/encyclopedia/ct1818_1865/twopartysys.htm   (605 words)      MSN Encarta - Republican Party Republicans controlled most elective offices in the Northern states during the war, and for a generation afterward they were able to make full use of patriotic fervor to denounce the Democrats as traitors and friends of the South. Support for black rights waned when Republicans perceived that this support was costing the party needed votes, but even this did not help the party in the South, where the blacks were disfranchised and the whites for the most part remained Democratic. Beginning in that year, increased voter strength made the Republicans the majority party in the country for a generation. http://encarta.msn.com/encyclopedia_761568416/Republican_Party.html   (1132 words)      Welcome to The American Presidency For a time it seemed as if the Know-Nothings (officially the American party) would be the main opposition party in the United States. Know-Nothing parties remained strong in a number of Northern states in the late 1850s, but the party was spent as a national force before the election of 1860. Know-Nothing Movement, a nativist political movement in the United States in the 1850s. http://ap.grolier.com/article?assetid=0233110-00&templatename=/article/article.html   (521 words)      Know-Nothing movement The American Republican party, formed (1843) in New York, spread into neighboring states as the Native American party, which became a national party at its Philadelphia convention in 1845. Many secret orders grew up, of which the Order of United Americans and the Order of the Star-spangled Banner came to be the most important. Growing rapidly, the Know-Nothings allied themselves with the group of Whigs who followed Millard Fillmore and almost captured New York state in the 1854 election, while they did sweep the polls in Massachusetts and Delaware and had local successes in other states. http://www.infoplease.com/ce6/history/A0827946.html   (528 words)      Reader's Companion to American History - -REPUBLICAN PARTY The Republican party has been a major political force in the United States since it first appeared on the presidential ballot in 1856. The western tradition of radical Republicanism was sustained by continuing economic hardship in the agricultural states, but its spokesmen in the Senate—La Follette of Wisconsin, William Borah of Idaho, George Norris of Nebraska, and Hiram Johnson of California—were regarded derisively as the "Sons of the Wild Jackass" by the party elite. The war firmly identified the Republican party as the party of the victorious North. http://college.hmco.com/history/readerscomp/rcah/html/ah_074900_republicanpa.htm   (2267 words)      Know-Nothing Party --  Britannica Concise Encyclopedia - The online encyclopedia you can trust! 18th vice president of the United States (1873–75) in the Republican administration of President Ulysses S. Grant and a national leader in the antislavery movement. The Whig Party was formally organized in 1834, bringing together a loose coalition of groups united in their opposition to what party members viewed as the executive tyranny of “King Andrew” Jackson. By 1859 the party's influence was limited to the border states. http://www.britannica.com/ebc/article-9369309?tocId=9369309   (831 words)      Daphne Dispatch By 1857, because of a variety of reasons - slavery, the new Republican Party, tensions between the North and South - their support base disintegrated. Shrouded in secrecy, their members unwilling to be publicly recognized, the Know-Nothing party caused political uproar during the 1850s. The Order that he founded became the Know-Nothing party. http://www.ustrek.org/odyssey/semester1/111100/111100daphknow.html   (1064 words)      Grover Norquist - The Republican Party's prophet of permanence. By Chris Suellentrop With one party states come abridgement of freedoms. Norquist seems to be advocating one party rule. President Clinton's re-election in 1996, the Democratic gains in the House in 1998, and Al Gore's victory in the popular vote in 2000 confounded the believers in Republican realignment. http://www.slate.com/id/2085277   (1444 words)      The Whig Party The Whig Party, in the United States, was for most of its history concerned with promoting internal improvements, such as roads, canals, railroads, deepening of rivers, etc. This was of interest to many Westerners in this period, isolated as they were and in need of markets. In the 1850s when the nation became increasingly divided over slavery, a new Republican party formed, primarily to keep slavery quarantined off in the South, while Southern sentiment was for their right to move, with their way of life, into any new territory. This party was strong in urban areas, which had also been a Whig stronghold. http://www.earlyrepublic.net/whigs.htm   (601 words)      The Massachusetts Historical Society On View Banks previously had served as a Know-Nothing member of the United States Congress from Massachusetts, before running for governor as a candidate of the new Republican Party. Many members of the American Party supported government reform and other progressive causes, but their central goal was to severely restrict the rights of immigrants -- specifically, Irish Catholic immigrants in Massachusetts, and large numbers of German (Catholic) immigrants elsewhere in the United States. In addition, candidates supported by the American Party won elections for all forty seats in the state senate; all but three seats in the very large state house of representatives; the entire state delegation to the United States Congress; and many local government offices, including in the City of Boston. http://www.masshist.org/objects/2005january.cfm?display=print   (517 words)      CPUSA Online - Our banner for 2004 was “Build Unity – Defeat Bush and the Ultra-Right.” Our method was an all-out effort with the broad labor-led democratic front against extreme right-wing reaction; and within that all-out for a bigger, stronger Communist Party and YCL. Labor was at the heart of an incredible people’s coalition to defeat George Bush and the ultra-right wing of the Republican Party. The Communist Party USA expresses its deep sorrow on the death of Yasser Arafat, the decades-long leader and larger-than-life symbol of the Palestinian people’s quest for justice, human rights, self-determination and statehood. http://www.cpusa.org/   (517 words)      G O P.com :: Republican National Committee It’s an incredible time for the Republican Party. Our 2004 National Convention aptly reflected the state of our party as we approach Election Day—it has never been stronger, more unified or more prepared to deliver votes for Republican candidates from the courthouse to the White House. We are united behind our presidential and vice presidential nominees—President George W. Bush and Vice President Dick Cheney. http://www.rnc.org/   (517 words)      U.S. presidential election, 2004 See also: President of the United States, U.S. presidential election, U.S. Democratic Party Presidential Primary, 2004, U.S. Republican Party Presidential Primary, 2004, 2004 July 14, 2003 - Edie Bukewihge, Republican, formally filed papers with the Federal Election Commission seeking a first term as President of the United States. Filed: George W. Bush, President of the United States. http://us-presidential-election-2004.asinah.net/american-encyclopedia/wikipe...   (517 words)      Getting the Message Out! The Second American Party System: The Know Nothing Party In the congressional and state elections of 1854 and 1855 the Know Nothing party actually grew faster and proved far more damaging to the Whig party by siphoning off its adherents than the Republican party. By 1856, when the party had abandoned secrecy and campaigned publicly as the American party, many people expected it to elect the next president. By Michael F. Holt, Ph.D. The other new party to challenge Whigs' role as Democrats' major foe between 1854 and 1856 was the anti-Catholic, anti-immigrant Know Nothing party. http://dig.lib.niu.edu/message/ps-knownothing.html   (209 words)      Welcome to The American Presidency Ashworth, John, Agrarians and Aristocrats: Party Political Ideology in the United States, 1837 56) of the United States was formed to oppose Andrew Jackson and the Democratic party. The bulk of the party's remaining members dispersed in 1856 to the nativist Know-Nothing party or to the rising Republican party. http://ap.grolier.com/article?assetid=0311200-0&templatename=/article/article.html   (586 words)      CIA - The World Factbook -- United States Democratic Party [Terence McAULIFFE]; Green Party [leader NA]; Libertarian Party [Steve DASBACH]; Republican Party [Edward GILLESPIE] CIA - The World Factbook -- United States Britain's American colonies broke with the mother country in 1776 and were recognized as the new nation of the United States of America following the Treaty of Paris in 1783. http://www.cia.gov/cia/publications/factbook/geos/us.html   (586 words)      know-nothing - OneLook Dictionary Search Phrases that include know-nothing: know-nothing party, know-nothing movement, know-nothing republican, united states know-nothing party ) A member of a secret political organization in the United States, the chief objects of which were the proscription of foreigners by the repeal of the naturalization laws, and the exclusive choice of native Americans for office. http://www.onelook.com/?w=know-nothing   (191 words)      U.S. CONSTITUTION The United States shall guarantee to every State in this Union a Republican Form of Government, and shall protect each of them against Invasion; and on Application of the Legislature, or of the Executive (when the Legislature cannot be convened) against domestic Violence. Clause 7: The President shall, at stated Times, receive for his Services, a Compensation, which shall neither be encreased nor diminished during the Period for which he shall have been elected, and he shall not receive within that Period any other Emolument from the United States, or any of them. We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defence, promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America. http://www.house.gov/Constitution/Constitution.html   (191 words)      U.S. states L-M MFL = Minnesota Farmer-Labor Party (semi-Socialist, MN regionalist, 1919-1944); N-R = National Republican Party (anti-Jacksonian, 1826-1834); Uni = Union Party (or Constitutional Union Party, formed chiefly by remnants of the AP and southern Whigs, May 1860-1861); - Former parties: AJP = Anti-Jackson Party; anti-Fed = Anti-Federalist Party (pro-states rights, 1781-1796); AP = American Party (nativist, 1853-1860, informally K-N); U-D = Union-Democratic Party (conservative, pro-Union, opposed civil rights for slaves, 1860-1868); Whg = Whig Party (pro-federal govt., anti-Jacksonian, 1834-1854/60) http://www.worldstatesmen.org/US_states_L-M.html   (5797 words)      CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Knownothingism Its leaders had planned to concentrate in a single party the membership of various Native American orders already in existence and the "American Republicans", the "Order of United Americans", "Sons of America", and "United American Mechanics of the United States" formed the nucleus of the new party. Opposed to them in that election were the Democratic party and the newly organized Republican party, both of whom had expressed their dissent from Native American principles. Although the existence of the new party was generally known, and its political activities soon became manifest, all inquiries by outsiders respecting its organization and purpose, and especially as to the names of members, were met by those identified with the movement with the answer: "I don't know". http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/08677a.htm   (5797 words)      Northeastern United States - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia As of 2005, the governorships of many of the northeastern states are still controlled by the Republican Party; this is due in part to tradition and in part to the party's heightened social liberalism in the region. Due to the fact that the area is the closest in the United States to England, the region often shows a greater receptivity to European ideas and culture in relation to the rest of the country. Today, suburbanization is a rampant trend in United States housing development driven by widespread use of the automobile and de-emphasis on mass transit and commuter railroads as a viable form of transportation. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Northeastern_United_States   (4201 words)      Know-Nothing movement The American Republican party, formed (1843) in New York, spread into neighboring states as the Native American party, which became a national party at its Philadelphia convention in 1845. Republican party: Origins and Early Years - Origins and Early Years The name was first used by Thomas Jefferson's party, later called the... Millard Fillmore, the American party candidate for President in 1856, polled a small vote and won only the state of Maryland. http://www.infoplease.com/id/A0827946.html   (4201 words)      Meet other Republicans in your area! - Meetup.com Check out United Republican Party Meetup Day photos, quotes and more! We're part of United Republican Party Meetup Day on Thu Sep 22 19:00:00 EDT 2005! William Weber joined a local Republican Party Meetup Group on Sat Sep 10 05:59:06 EDT 2005! http://republican.meetup.com   (4201 words)

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