March 20, 1854 - The founding meeting of the Republican Party took place in Wisconsin on March 20, 1854. Former Whig Party members gathered to establish a new party to oppose the spread of slavery ...
KANSAS CITY, Mo. (KCTV) - November 7, 1874. The Third-Term Panic by Thomas Nast was the first political cartoon depicting the elephant as the Republican Party symbol. The GOP symbol we are now ...
The Republican Party was born in 1854, largely to oppose expanding slavery and, for many of its founders, to abolish it. By 1860, the party’s platform declared the African slave trade a “crime against ...
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