Republican Party in the Late 1800s A Changing Role for American Government

The Republican Party was founded in 1854 to abolish slavery. Abraham Lincoln was its first president. After the Civil War, as the Democratic Party foundered, party platforms shifted back and forth with the Republicans and Democrats battling over reconstruction of the South, civil rights, political corruption, and the power of big business over immigrants and the working poor.Stites, Bill is the author of 'Republican Party in the Late 1800s A Changing Role for American Government', published 2003 under ISBN 9780823942855 and ISBN 0823942856.