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During the Civil War, the party passed major legislation in Congress to promote rapid modernization, including a national banking system, high tariffs, the first income tax, many excise taxes, paper money issued without backing ("greenbacks"), a huge national debt, homestead laws, railroads and aid to education and agriculture. [35] [36]
Creation of a "Union Party" was a frequent proposition in the decade preceding the American Civil War. During the presidency of Millard Fillmore, Daniel Webster and others envisioned the Union Party as a vehicle for political moderates to support the Compromise of 1850 against attacks from abolitionists and secessionist Fire-Eaters.
Abraham Lincoln enacted tariffs during the Civil War. [394] [398] The great battle over the high Payne–Aldrich Tariff Act in 1910 caused a split in the party. [399] The Reciprocal Tariff Act of 1934 marked a sharp departure from the era of protectionism in the United States.
The intra-party jabs echo a broader debate over the legacy of the Civil War for policymaking today. “The Civil War was more than 150 years ago and we still haven’t fully come to terms with the ...
Lincoln and Johnson campaign poster. The party name was created in May 1864, during the Civil War, ahead of the 1864 presidential election, in which President Abraham Lincoln, then a Republican, was running for reelection.
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.
Hood County, Texas, has been shaken by a civil war between traditional Republicans and a far-right faction of the party energized by Donald Trump's brash brand of politics.
The Republican Party had emerged as the dominant party in the aftermath of the Civil War, but many original Republicans became dissatisfied with the leadership of President Grant. Prominent liberal leaders like Schurz, Charles Sumner and Lyman Trumbull had been leaders in the fight against slavery and for the first stages of Reconstruction.