South Carolina Political Timeline

By tuckersmithwick

  • Democratic-Republicans

    Were the dominant political party in the U.S.

  • The Republican

    Party is formed against the expansion of slavery

  • Abraham Lincoln

    Was elected the first Republican President

  • Southern Democrats

    Began to "redeem" the South and formed the "solid South"

  • Democratic Presidents

    Roosevelt and Truman both supported desegregation

  • Strom Thurmond

    Runs for president as the Dixiecrat nominee

  • Democrat Presidents

    Kennedy and Johnson both supported the Civil Rights Act

  • Laws such

    As the Educational Improvement Act are passed

  • South Carolina's

    First female governor, Nikki Haley, is elected