Transcript REPUBLICAN PARTY - Streetsboro City Schools

REPUBLICAN PARTY
• Symbol: Elephant
• Characteristics:
– Conservative
– Right-wing
– Less government
intervention
– Market control of
economy
– GOP Grand Old Party
History of Rep Party
• Organized in 1854 – opposing the extension
of slavery into the territories.
• 1860 1st Republican President
– Abraham Lincoln
• Support originally based on
– Eastern Businessmen
– Midwestern Farmers
– Laborers
• During the Depression (1930’s) lost support
of laborers
• After WWII gained support of white collar
suburban workers and conservatives in the
South
• 1901 Republican President
– Teddy Roosevelt:
Progressive Reforms
Anti-Trust Act
Pure Food & Drug Act
Meat Inspection Act
• 1908 Republican President
– William H. Taft:
Angered everyone!
• 1912 Teddy Roosevelt
– Distanced self from Republicans due to Taft
– created the Progressive Party and ran for
President – losses to the Democrats (third party
influence)
• 1920 “Party Of Prosperity
– Platform based on…
Raising tariffs
Restricting immigration
Aiding Farmers