SC Political Timeline

By mmccrea

  • Democratic-Republican

    Became the dominate political party

  • Republican Party

    Was formed by being against the expansion if slavery

  • Abraham Lincoln

    Became the first republican president

  • Redeen the south

    Southern Democrats made the solid south by redeeming

  • Roosevelt and Truman

    Both Democratic Presidents supported desegregation

  • Strom Thurmond

    Runs for president as the Dixiecrat nomoniee

  • Presidents Kennedy and Johnson

    Support civil rights act

  • Laws

    Educational Improvement act was passed

  • Nikki Haley

    The first female government of South Carolina