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Slavery and the Civil WarRise of the Republican Party in the 1850s
The Republican Party were not popular in the South. Southerners believed that they wished to abolish slavery. In the 1860 election the Republican candidate Abraham Lincoln won all the Northern states.
What Does ‘GOP’ Stand For?
The Republican Party, on the other hand, dates back to the 1850s. The Oxford English Dictionary (OED)’s oldest example of ...