Part 1 of Essay
There are many political parties in the U.S. to day. The republican and the Democratic Party are the main ones everybody knows about. But I'm going to talk about the Republican Party. Founded by a coalition in 1854, the coalition was composed of former members of the Whig, Free-Soil, and Know-Nothing parties, along wi ....

Part 2 of Essay
.... impact of immigration. In 1860 their candidate, Abraham Lincoln, was elected to the presidency; the Southern states reacted by seceding from the Union, and the country was plunged into the Civil War (1861-1865). The Civil War and the Reconstruction period that followed gave the Republican Party a solid core of strength and permanence. Republicans controlled most elective offices in the Northern states during the war, and for a generation afterward they were able to make full use of patriotic fervor to denounce ....