The Impact of the Republican Party

 

'To man, his birthright; to labor, freedom; to him that wants to labor, work and in independence; to him that works, his dues.' This is the Republican platform. --Carl Schurz

The creation of the Republican party in Wisconsin represents the beginning of the two-party system in the United States. Wisconsinites were the first to organize those in the Whig and Democrat parties who were anti-slavery into the Republican party.

[Making of the Republican party] [Sherman Booth - a Radical]
[Abraham Lincoln and Wisconsin]

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