In order to achieve better insight as to where we are today in the Republican party, one must look into t

he various groups absorbed into the party. At the time of the formation of the Republican Party, the government was basically a two party system consisting of the Democrats and the Whigs. The Republicans became a national party when John Freemont was nominated for president. One can ascertain rather clearly what was going on at the time simply by studying the slogan under which Freemont ran: "Free soil, free labor, free speech, free men, Fremont." While the Republicans would go on to lose the election, they did garner 33% of the vote. Four years later Abraham Lincoln would be elected the first Republican president.

The Republican party gained its social concience when it absorbed the group advocating the Temperance Movement. This group sought to reduce and hopefully eradicate what they saw as an epidemic of drunkenness among young adult male workers. This movement attracted not only those concerned about alcohol abuse, but in more of a gene

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