History of the Republican Party | American civics | US government and civics | Khan Academy

A quick history of the GOP, from its origins before the Civil War through the elections of Lincoln, Eisenhower and Reagan. And where does that elephant symbol come from, anyway?

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[tommychips]

I am a Black man and a republican. Proud to be one. However the party switch is very debatable. Some people said it did not happen some say it did.

[someguyusa]

I appreciate that Khan Academy doesn't hide the massive economic issues that were directly tied to slavery and how each side viewed it. So many people today try to ignore this aspect as if some part of the country was purely noble and the other was purely evil as if both didn't have major monetary stakes in the overall situation.

[ThaiZeo]

Best party ever invented, God bless american, Proud Hispanic Republican :)

[zealandzen]

01:15 It's worth mentioning the anti-slavery sentiment and activism in churches, and everyone belonged to a church.

[sinister]

This is a perfect example of what is wrong with our schools today.

[eldog]

The Democrats started what is now the Kkk and forced the ancestors to be democrats.. We were very intelligent Republicans.

[Other.]

Though the Republican north technically won the Civil War, with the death of Lincoln and the presidency of Andrew Johnson, effectively the influence of the South outweighed that of the North after the war. For a well-researched account, read American History professor Heather Cox Richardson’s “How the South Won the Civil War” - it is eye opening and explains a lot of what is happening now.

[riskingeuphoria]

things were so much happier back when this was recorded.

[PrimalMiltos]

At 5:49 - Must mention that the 1929 market crash would have lasted one year if it wasn't for Hoover doing the same mistakes as Bush - Greenspan and Obama - Bernanke/Yellen did. It wasn't regulation that was needed. The application of Keynesian economics actually prevented any real recovery and caused the Great Depression. In contrast in 1920-1921 there was another market crash but the US government did the exact opposite of a Keynesian solution:
Due to the expansion of Federal Debt during WW1 the US market crashed. But from FY 1919 to 1920, federal spending was slashed from $18.5 billion to $6.4 billion—a 65 percent reduction in one year. The budget was pushed down the next two years as well, to $3.3 billion in FY 1922. On the monetary side, the New York Fed raised its discount rate to a record high 7 percent by June 1920. To be sure, the 1920–1921 depression was painful. The unemployment rate peaked at 11.7 percent in 1921. But it had quickly dropped to 6.7 percent by the following year, and was down to 2.4 percent by 1923. After the depression the United States proceeded to enjoy the “Roaring Twenties, ” arguably the most prosperous decade in the country’s history.
Compare that to the 1929 Depression and our 2008 Great Recession that keeps on lingering.

[jeremiahj]

As a black man I was never taught this.

[ElaineWalker]

You give Democrats credit for the 19th amendment, in that video, and don’t even mention it in this video, yet it was Republican majorities that proposed and passed it. I usually think Khan Academy is great, but can NO one teach real genuine history?

[kirkdarling]

The switch in Republican ideology happened in 1912 when Theodore Roosevelt pulled the "progressive" contingent out of the Republican Party to form the Progressive Party. It took the rest of the century for the Democratic Party to make its own gradual change of ideology, but the Republican Party abruptly lost its progressive element by that particular act by Teddy Roosevelt.

[macrumpton]

This is fascinating stuff. I would love to see a piece about the history of American rejection of expertise and intellectualism and how the parties dealt with that. It is tempting to see the slide from Presidents like Ike and FDR to where we are today as a continuous slope, but I am sure it is more complicated than that.

[SixteenVoice]

Let's talk about when slavery was common legal practice in the northern states. Funny how the democrat party always want to leave that out...

[emmamckinney]

(Looks at comment section)
Huh, not as bad as I thought

[nono-fvqx]

This was really informative and interesting. Thank you.

[efoxkitsune]

This was extremely helpful, thank you. Wish me luck on Tomorrow's final...

[chano]

The Federal Reserve System should have cut short the process of monetary deflation and banking collapse. If the Fed had done that the economic downturn would have been far less severe and much shorter.

[Berserker]

The two parties did not switch sides. Liberals, democrats, socialists,
communists and regressives. All claim that it happened, there was no switch.

[marcog]

Lincoln, the founder of the Republican Party was most definitely an abolitionist. That's the whole reason the party was formed.