South Carolina Political Timeline

  • Democratic Republicans

    were the dominant party in the U.S.
  • The 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"
  • Democratics Presidents

    Roosevelt and Truman both supported desegregation
  • Strom Thurmond

    runs for president as the Dixiecrat nominee
  • Democrat Presidents

    Kennedy and Johnson both support the Civil Rights Act
  • Laws

    such as the Educational Improvement Act are passed
  • South Carolina's

    first female governor, Nikki Haley, is elected

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