birth of the republican party

ON THIS DAY IN HISTORY MARCH 20,1854 Republican Party WAS FOUNDED THE Republican Party is founded as an abolitionist party to slavery in the United States. THE REPUBLICAN PARTY was founded in 1854 by abolitionists that fought and DIED TO STOP SLAVERY! Abraham Lincoln, the first Republican U. S. President (1861–1865). Founded in the Northern states in 1854 by anti-slavery activists, modernizers, ex-Whigs, and ex-Free Soilers, the Republican Party quickly became the principal opposition to the dominant Democratic Party and the briefly popular Know Nothing Party