While both parties adopted pro-business policies in the 19th century, the early GOP was distinguished by its support for the national banking system, the gold standard, railroads, and high tariffs.
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It had almost no presence in the Southern United States at its inception, but was very successful in the Northern United States where, by 1858, it had enlisted former Whigs and former Free Soil Democrats to form majorities in nearly every state in New England. The Republican Party initially consisted of Northern Protestants, factory workers, professionals, businessmen, prosperous farmers, and from 1866, former black slaves. Upon its founding, it supported classical liberalism and economic reform while opposing the expansion of slavery. The collapse of the Whigs, which had previously been one of the two major parties in the country, strengthened the party's electoral success. Arthur, and Benjamin Harrison all being Whigs before switching to the party, from which they were elected. The Republican Party's ideological and historical predecessor is considered to be Northern members of the Whig Party, with Republican presidents Abraham Lincoln, Rutherford B. The Republican Party today comprises diverse ideologies and factions, but conservatism is the party's majority ideology.
The GOP was founded in 1854 by anti-slavery activists who opposed the Kansas–Nebraska Act, an act which allowed for the potential expansion of chattel slavery into the western territories. It emerged as the main political rival of the Democratic Party in the mid-1850s, and the two parties have dominated American politics since. The Republican Party, also referred to as the GOP (" Grand Old Party"), is one of the two major contemporary political parties in the United States.
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