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Thank you We sneak and here's your shmoop du jour

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brought to you by the anti federalists Those who fight

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for the state's right to party All right The republican

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party drew many of its members from what Not here

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The potential answers party party party All right well let's

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address the elephant in the room The republican party has

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not always been a mainstay of u s politics Every

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few decades the political landscape endures an earthquake of sorts

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And once the dust settles new political parties emerged to

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shake up the conversation Did the republican party draw many

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of its members from eh the federalist party Will the

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federalist party which advocated for a strong central government disappeared

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from the national scene after the war of eighteen twelve

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republican party however didn't get together until the eighteen fifties

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So a isn't the answer for us The republican party

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draw many of its members from the the democratic republican

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party Well the democratic republicans who with the federalist made

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up the first party system called it quits during andrew

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jackson's presidency when these champions for small government were largely

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absorbed in a new democratic party that was around eighteen

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Twenty eight So we're still not quite there Could the

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republicans have drawn its core constituents from devi the anti

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federalist party Well the anti federalists were opposed to real

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shocker here The federalist anti federalists led by patrick henry

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thought the national government was encroaching on state's rights and

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they did all they could to prevent the ratification of

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the new constitution So that's a d for effort What

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about the the progressive party Will the progressive party led

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by theodore roosevelt was actually an offshoot of the republican

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party since teddy was unable to reclaim the nineteen twelve

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republican nomination from his friend turned rival william howard taft

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So if he takes us in the exact opposite direction

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well that means the republican party drew many of its

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members from see the wig party Bingo The republican party

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emerged from a political realignment in the eighteen fifties when

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the issue of slavery split the existing parties Most wigs

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who were largely northerners opposed to slavery joined the republicans

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when their party went extinct So option c is the

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correct answer Shortly after the party's formacion abraham lincoln became

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the first republican elected to the oval office which unfortunately

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triggered the secession of southern states What a bunch of 00:02:26.68 --> [endTime] political party poopers

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