SC Political Timeline

By JJmaloney

  • Democratic republicans

    They became the dominant political party in the US

  • Republican Party

    Formed against the expansion of slavery.

  • Abraham Lincoln

    Elected first republican president

  • Southern Democrats

    Began to redeem the south which eventually became the solid south.

  • President Roosevelt and Truman

    These democrats both supported desegregation.

  • Strom Thurmond

    Runs for president as the Dixiecrat nominee

  • Democrat presidents kennedy and johnson

    Both supported the Civil Rights Act

  • Educational Education Act

    Laws like these were passed.

  • Nikki Haley

    South Carolina first female governer elected