Democrats and Republicans were both born from the Democratic-Republican Party also known as Jeffersonian Republicans , which was founded by Thomas Jefferson and James Madison in the s. The party favored political equality, expansionism and the philosophy of republicanism, which holds liberty, individual rights and the power of the people as central values.
The Democratic-Republican Party eventually broke into factions during the presidential election. Crawford and Henry Clay. No candidate won the electoral vote, and the House of Representatives held a contingent election to choose the president. Adams eventually won. Eventually, the Democratic Party took its name in and the Republican Party took its name in , uniting former Whigs those who favored higher tariffs, distributing land revenues to states, and passing economic relief legislation , like-minded Democrats and abolitionists.
This fusion of ideologies in the newly formed Republican Party was, ironically, primarily driven by a Democratic-supported effort. Namely, the Kansas-Nebraska Act of , a piece of legislation that allowed slavery to expand into western territories.
After it passed, a period of violent anti- and pro- slavery confrontations arose known as Bleeding Kansas — an antecedent to the Civil War.
The debate over slavery intensified over the next several years as a young Abraham Lincoln was beginning to get his political footing. That doesn't mean that the time-honored letters will disappear forever from the pages of the prestigious financial newspaper.
Reporters and editors will still be allowed to use the term in a quotation, if someone else says GOP. But an explanation of the acronym will be provided for any readers who might be stumped. Confusing the readers isn't the only issue underlying the newspaper's decision. Have you ever wondered what GOP stands for in politics? The answer is in United States history, and it can help you understand a lot more about modern political arguments.
The history of the Republican party goes back to the issue of slavery. Prior to the midth century, the major U. When the Whig party fell apart over slavery, that was the birth of the GOP — but only the beginning. The Republican party was formed as a reaction to the expansion of slavery in the United States, namely through the Kansas-Nebraska Act which effectively repealed the Missouri Compromise.
Original members of the Republican party staunchly opposed slavery and favored economic reform. It rivaled the Democratic party, the oldest political party in the United States, which supported state sovereignty and expanding slavery.
Abraham Lincoln was elected as the first Republican president in With his election came Republican control in the House of Representatives and Congress, which was vital during the Civil War in Lincoln oversaw the Union victory in and the 13th amendment to the United States Constitution, which abolished slavery on American soil.
From the period of - , the now-nicknamed GOP was politically successful. You may have heard of him. Lincoln and his early Republicans expanded federal power in ways that are pretty, well, un -Republican today: new federal taxes to fund the creation of a nationalized bank system, a nationalized railroad, high import tariffs , and the state university system.
The party picked up the Grand Old Party label in the s. However, the initialism GOP that is still used today is credited to newspaperman T. The Tea Party formed as a conservative political movement within the Republican Party.
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