At the collapse of the Federalist Party/Whig Party due to the Missouri Compromise, Abraham Lincoln created the Republican Party and ran on an anti-slavery platform that won him 60% of the populist/electoral-college vote against his opposition; Democrat John Cabell Breckinridge of Kentucky (2nd in electoral-college votes), who later served as the Confederate States of America, Secretary of War.
Formerly, Democratic-Republican Party, had its name officially changed by Democratic President Andrew Jackson to the Democratic Party (which is why Democrats advertise themselves as America’s oldest Party) to prevent further confusion among voters with Abraham Lincoln’s newly formed Republican Party.
US President, Democrat Andrew Jackson didn't help minorities when initiating the Trail of Tears that slaughtered the Cherokee Nation here in GA and moved others to Oklahoma.
Democratic Representative and later Democratic Senator of Mississippi, Jefferson Finis Davis eventually helped his Democratic Party establish the Confederate States of America. The Democratic Party overwhelmingly voted for Davis as the President of the Confederacy.
15th US President, Democrat James Buchanan, Jr. of Pennsylvania drafted the Ostend Manifesto and strongly supported the Corwin Amendment.
US House of Representatives, Democrat Thomas Corwin of Ohio, introduced the Corwin Amendment to prevent any future Amendments to the US Constitution that would empower the US government to enforce laws over domestic institutions within any State, to include preventing the abolishment of the institution of slavery or indentured servitude allowable within each States' laws. This Bill was defeated by Republicans in the US House of Representatives.
13TH Amendment to the US Constitution (Dec. 6th, 1865): Prohibits Slavery and Involuntary Servitude, signed into law by:
- 16th US President, Republican Abraham Lincoln
- US Secretary of State, Republican William Henry Seward, Sr. of New York
- US House of Representatives introduced the legislation via:
- Republican James Mitchell Ashley of Ohio
- Republican James F. Wilson of Iowa
- US Senate introduced legislation via:
- Republican Lyman Trumbull of Illinois
- Republican Charles Summer of Massachusetts
From 1865-1867, Confederate Democrats in Pulaski, TN created the KKK via the Immortal Six, their president Brian A. Scates, Confederate Brigadier General George Gordon as president, and Confederate General Nathan Bedford Forrest as Grand Wizard. The Democratic Party, via their KKK grassroots organization, successfully assassinated over 2,000 Republican candidates during the US 1868 elections in opposition to the Republican Reconstruction, anti-slavery, Irish, Jewish, and Catholic immigration; this prevented any Republicans from taking office in the Deep South for nearly 50-yrs and closed-out major elections for nearly the whole century.
17th US President, Democrat (briefly, National Union Party due to Civil War's unpopularity of Democratic Party) Andrew Johnson of Tennessee vetoed the Civil Rights Act of 1866.
18th US President, Republican Hiram Ulysses S. Grant, (1st Republican to win 2-terms) signed into law:
- 15th Amendment to the US Constitution, allowing Freedmen the right to vote equally among all other races.
- Civil Rights Act of 1875, equal access in public facilities and jury pooling
- Force Act of 1870 & Ku Klux Klan Act of 1871: enabled the US Union Army to put down protest and arrest any known member of the KKK, White Knights, Red Shirts, and White League; who's involved in harassment, assassinations, or intimidation of Republicans, pastors, Native Americans, Jews, Catholics, Irish, or those of African descent.
28th US President, Democrat Woodrow Wilson didn't help minorities when he initiated segregated schools and buses and aggressively helped Democrats achieve separate but equal establishments.
Democrat political poster from 1876
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