New Deal coalition
CLEP American Government, Chapter 27 New Deal coalition After the Civil War, Republicans drew strength from Union loyalty, northern industry, Union veterans, and many farmers, while Democrats retained much of the white South and built support in many urban immigrant communities. Late-nineteenth-century contests were often close, and conflict over tariffs, currency, industrialization, patronage, and agrarian […]
Emergence of the Republican Party
CLEP American Government, Chapter 27 Emergence of the Republican Party The Republican Party emerged when the conflict over slavery's expansion broke apart older coalitions. The Kansas-Nebraska Act of 1854 allowed territorial settlers to decide the slavery question and effectively reopened territory that the Missouri Compromise had treated as closed to slavery. Antislavery Whigs, Free Soilers, […]
