Republican Party

Part Name: Republican Party

History: The Republican Party was founded in 1854 by anti-slavery activists who opposed the Kansas-Nebraska Act and it quickly became more popular than the Whig Party as the main opposition to the Democratic Party. Its first success came during the Civil War when its candidate Abraham Lincoln took the presidency and later during the Reconstruction. The Party holds conservative ideals. The current president, President George W. Bush, is the 19th Republican president. The Republican’s next presidential candidate is Senator John McCain.

Animal: Elephant

Slogans: “Grand Old Party”, “Don't swap horses in midstream”, “Reform, Prosperity, and Peace.”

Site for Convention: Minneapolis- St. Paul,

Issues platform: The Republican Party hold conservative ideals. It believes in less federal control and more power to the states. Economically, it favors a free market, believing that money will naturally circulate through the economy as people with more money spend it on products made by the middle class and pay their employees who then invest it in banks or spend it.

Famous party candidate/individual: President Abraham Lincoln was elected President in 1860 at the onset of the Civil War. He is wildly recognized as one of America’s greatest presidents, if not the greatest, because of the way he fought to preserve the Union and ensured that all slaves were freed during the Civil War.