SC Political Timeline

By hannahloudin

  • Democratic-Republicans

    were the dominant political party in the US

  • 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"

  • Strom Thurmond

    runs for president as the Dixiecrat nominee

  • Kennedy and Johnson

    supported the Civil Rights Act

  • EIA

    and other education laws are passed

  • Nikki Haley

    is elected SC's first female governor