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1829 – the Democratic party is founded, on a platform of individual rights, state sovereignty and pro slavery.
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1830 – Democratic president Andrew Jackson creates the Indian Removal Act, that forced indigenous people to leave their homeland. (Trail of Tears)
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1854 – the Republican party is founded, on an anti-slavery platform.
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1857 – In a case of Scott vs. Sandford, the court ruled that slaves aren’t citizens, they are property. The seven justices, voting in favor were Democrats, the two, who dissented were Republicans.
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1860 – 11 slave states secede from the Union, Democrats start the civil war.
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1863 – Republican president Abraham Lincoln signs the Emancipation Proclamation.
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1863 – Republicans elect their first Hispanic Governor, Romualdo Pacheco, of California.
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1865 – Lincoln was assassinated, his vice president, Andrew Johnson, a Democrat assumes the presidency, who is opposed to integrating the newly freed slaves.
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1865 – Republicans pass the 13th Amendment, that permanently outlaws slavery.
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1865 – Democrats establish “Black Codes”, a state and local statures, intended to marginalize blacks and keep them in indentured servitude. Poll taxes and literacy tests prevented them from voting.
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1865 – Confederate veterans found the KKK, to oppose the Republican party’s integration of blacks. It’s first Grand Wizard, was a Democrat, named Nathan Bedford Forrest.
The KKK lynched 3446 blacks and 1289 white Republicans during its 86 year history.
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“Everyone who shoots down negroes in the streets, burns negro school-houses and meeting-houses, and murders women and children by the light of their own flaming dwellings, calls himself a Democrat. In short, the Democratic Party may be described as a common sewer and loathsome receptacle into which is emptied every element of treason, North and South, every element of inhumanity and barbarism which has dishonored the age.”
— Gov. Oliver Morton of Indiana 1860s
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1868 – Republicans pass the 14th Amendment, giving blacks citizenship. It was opposed by the Democrats.
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1868 – Republicans pass the 15th Amendment, giving blacks the right to vote. No Democrat supported it.
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1868 – KKK Grand Wizard is honored at the Democratic National Convention.
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1869 – Reconstruction ended, Democrats re-established white supremacy in the South with Jim Crow laws, that legalized segregation. that would take another 100 years to abolish.
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1871 – Republican president Ulysses S Grant dismantles the KKK.
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1872 – Republicans elect the first African American senators and representatives.
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1878 – Republican senator Aaron Sargent introduces the 19th Amendment, to give women the right to vote. The Democrat controlled Congress voted it out.
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1911 – Democrat president Woodrow Wilson stuffs his cabinet with Dixicrats (powerful Southern Democrats) and set back the cause of civil rights for decades.
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1918 – KKK is re-established, targeting immigrants, Jews and Catholics, in addition to blacks.
1919 – Republican Congress passes the 19th Amendment, guaranteening women the right to vote.
1922 – Democrats try to keep lynching legal by creating a filibuster in the Senate.
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1929 – Republican Octaviano Larrazolo becomes the first Mexican American Senator.
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1929 – Republican Charles Curtis becomes the first Native American VP.
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1939 – Democrat and KKK covergirl Margaret Sanger created the “Negro Project” and Planned Parenthood to cull the black population.
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1954 – Republican lawmakers outlawed segregation in public school, opposed by state Democrats. Republican president Eisenhower sent in federal troops to enforce the law.
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1959 – First Republican Asian Senator, Hiram Fong is elected.
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1964 – President Johnson successfully runs an ad, titled “Confessions of a Republican”. Democrats learned that by accusing Republicans of racism, even without evidence, they can gain political power.
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1964 – The Republican controlled Congress passes the 1964 Civil Rights Act, as an extension of the Republicans 1957 and 1960 Civil Rights Acts. Democratic Senators filibustered the bill for a record 75 days.
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The Democratic party claims that the Republicans are the racists today, because the parties “switched”, the racist Southern Democrats became Republican in 1964. There was no “party switching”, only two Democrats became Republicans, Miles Goodwin and Thurgood Marshall, who had a change of heart. Those, who were Republicans, remained Republicans.
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What changed was the Democrat’s tactics toward African Americans. By the 60’s blacks achieved political power and the Democrats realized they could no longer openly suppress their right to vote, so they decided, “if they’ll vote, they might as well vote for us.”
-“I’ll have those n****s vote Democrat for the next 200 years.”
-“These Negroes, they get pretty uppity these days and that’s a problem for us……….we’ve got to give them a little something, just enough to quiet them down, not enough to make a difference.”
Lyndon B Johnson 1963
Before 1964, Democrats regarded African Americans as violent beasts, who had no aptitude for learning. After 1964 they treated them with gentleness, kindness and sympathy, as their pets..
History books portray LBJ, as the “Great Emancipator and Civil Rights Hero”. In reality, he only supported the Civil Rights Acts, because it was politically expedient.
In private, he communicated how he was going to addict blacks to government dependence, break up their families, destroy their lives and futures and make them into worthless people.
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Source: https://timefortruth.blog/2020/09/01/the-hidden-history-of-the-democratic-party/
The Republican Party, often called the GOP (short for “Grand Old Party”) is one of two major political parties in the United States. Founded in 1854 as a coalition opposing the extension of slavery into Western territories, the Republican Party fought to protect the rights of African Americans after the Civil War. Today’s GOP is generally socially conservative, and favors smaller government, less regulation, lower taxes and less federal intervention in the economy.
Early Political Parties
Though America’s Founding Fathers distrusted political parties, it wasn’t long before divisions developed among them. Supporters of George Washington and Alexander Hamilton, who favored a strong central government and a national financial system, became known as Federalists.
By contrast, Secretary of State Thomas Jefferson favored a more limited government. His supporters called themselves Republicans, or Jeffersonian Republicans, but later became known as Democratic-Republicans.
The Federalist Party dissolved after the War of 1812, and by the 1830s the Democratic-Republicans had evolved into the Democratic Party (now the main rival to today’s Republicans), which initially rallied around President Andrew Jackson.
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Opponents of Jackson’s policies formed their own party, the Whig Party, and by the 1840s Democrats and Whigs were the country’s two main political coalitions.
Slavery and the Republicans
In the 1850s, the issue of slavery—and its extension into new territories and states joining the Union—ripped apart these political coalitions. During this volatile period, new political parties briefly surfaced, including the Free Soil and the American (Know-Nothing) parties.
In 1854, opposition to the Kansas-Nebraska Act, which would permit slavery in new U.S. territories by popular referendum, drove an antislavery coalition of Whigs, Free-Soilers, Americans and disgruntled Democrats to found the new Republican Party, which held its first meeting in Ripon, Wisconsin that May. Two months later, a larger group met in Jackson, Michigan, to choose the party’s first candidates for statewide office.
The Republican goal was not to abolish slavery in the South right away, but rather to prevent its westward expansion, which they feared would lead to the domination of slaveholding interests in national politics.
In the 1860 election, a split between Southern and Northern Democrats over slavery propelled the Republican candidate Abraham Lincoln to victory, though he won only around 40 percent of the popular vote.
Even before Lincoln could be inaugurated, seven Southern states seceded from the Union, beginning the process that would lead to the Civil War.
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Reconstruction
Over the course of the Civil War, Lincoln and other Republicans began to see the abolition of slavery as a strategic move to help them win the war. Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation in 1863, and by war’s end, the Republican majority in Congress would spearhead the passage of the 13th Amendment, which abolished slavery.
Frustrated by the inaction of Lincoln’s Democratic successor, Andrew Johnson, as well as the treatment of freed blacks in former Confederate states during the Reconstruction era, Radical Republicans in Congress passed legislation protecting the rights of blacks, including civil rights and voting rights (for black men).
These Republican Reconstruction policies would solidify white Southerners’ loyalty to the Democratic Party for many decades to come.
During Reconstruction, Republicans would become increasingly associated with big business and financial interests in the more industrialized North. The federal government had expanded during the war (including passage of the first income tax) and Northern financiers and industrialists had greatly benefited from its increased spending.
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Source: https://www.history.com/topics/us-politics/republican-party