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Abraham Lincoln started the republican party to stop the proslavery hapening in the united states.
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The elephant that represents the rpublicans was put into a political cartoon. the artists name was Thomas Nast.
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Abraham Lincoln ran for slavery to slowly kill slavery and for it to go away and die out on it's own, but he had a very slim chance of winning because he ran against three other widely known men. he was brought into polotics after hearing of the dredd scott case.
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Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclomation, declaring that as of January 1st, 1863 all slaves shall be freed.
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Assasinated John Wilkes Booth
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First Republican presiedent to serve two full terms.
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The election of 1896 is widely seen as as resurgence of Republican dominance.
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Theodore Roosevelt was voted vice president in 1900, but became president in 1901. because president Mckinley was shot and killed.
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in 1960 Nixon lost to JFK, but in 1968 he was elected president he got 301 votes and beat his oppenent.
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Barack Obama was voted into office in 2008 and is still in office until the end of 2012.
