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2.3 Gilded Age: 1877–1891. ... this was the "Free Soil, Free Labor, Free Men" ideology. ... Political positions of the Republican Party; United States politics.
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)
An alternate symbol of the Republican Party in states such as Indiana, New York and Ohio is the bald eagle as opposed to the Democratic rooster or the Democratic five-pointed star. [209] [210] In Kentucky, the log cabin is a symbol of the Republican Party. [211] Traditionally the party had no consistent color identity.
The 2016 Republican Party Platform declares: "We support the right of the United States citizens of Puerto Rico to be admitted to the Union as a fully sovereign state. We further recognize the historic significance of the 2012 local referendum in which a 54 percent majority voted to end Puerto Rico's current status as a U.S. territory, and 61 ...
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 Republican Party in the United States includes several factions, or wings.During the 19th century, Republican factions included the Half-Breeds, who supported civil service reform; the Radical Republicans, who advocated the immediate and total abolition of slavery, and later advocated civil rights for freed slaves during the Reconstruction era; and the Stalwarts, who supported machine ...
Free Soil, Free Labor, Free Men: The Ideology of the Republican Party before the Civil War. Holt, Michael F. (1992). Political Parties and American Political Development: From the Age of Jackson to the Age of Lincoln. Holt, Michael F. (1999). The Rise and Fall of the American Whig Party: Jacksonian Politics and the Onset of the Civil War ...
The Stalwarts were a faction of the Republican Party that existed briefly in the United States during Reconstruction and the Gilded Age during the 1870s and 1880s. Led by U.S. Senator Roscoe Conkling—also known as "Lord Roscoe"—Stalwarts were sometimes called Conklingites.