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A red elephant, a symbol of the Republican Party. The Republican Party, also known as the GOP (Grand Old Party), is one of the two major political parties in the United States. It is the second-oldest extant political party in the United States after its main political rival, the Democratic Party.
The Republican Party, also known as the Grand Old Party (GOP), is one of the two major contemporary political parties in the United States. It emerged as the main political rival of the then-dominant Democratic Party in the 1850s, and the two parties have dominated American politics since then.
The Republican Party in the Age of Roosevelt: Sources of Anti-Government Conservatism in the United States (U. of Virginia Press, 2014) excerpt and text search; Shelley II, Mack C. The Permanent Majority: The Conservative Coalition in the United States Congress (1983) Smith, Richard Norton. Thomas E. Dewey and His Times. (1982)
In United States history, the Gilded Age is the period from about the late 1870s to the late 1890s, which occurred between the Reconstruction era and the Progressive Era. It was named by 1920s historians after Mark Twain 's 1873 novel The Gilded Age: A Tale of Today .
Conservative Republicans was a designation applied in reference to a faction of the early Republican Party during the American Civil War and Reconstruction era which advocated a lenient, conciliatory policy towards the South in contrast to the harsher attitudes emphasized by Radical Republicans.
Gilded Age: 1877–1896 ... Sioux Wars, August 19, 1854 – December 29, 1890 Grattan massacre, August 19, ... History of the United States Republican Party;
Articles relating to the History of the Republican Party, one of the two major political parties in the United States. It is the second-oldest extant political party in the United States after its main political rival, the Democratic Party .
The bill passed the House in July 1890 on a largely party-line vote, but a vote on the bill was delayed in the Senate after Republican leaders chose to focus on the tariff and other priorities. In January 1891, the Senate voted 35–34 to table consideration of the Federal Elections Bill in favor of an unrelated bill backed by the Silver ...