... . In addition, the Republicans repeatedly charged the Democrats with having caused the war and having been disloyal to the Union. The situation changed after 1929. Just as the Republicans had blamed the Democrats for the Civil War, so the Democrats blamed the Republicans for the stock market crash of 1929 and the Great Depression of the 1930's. The Democrats won the presidency in ... followers rapidly. The party's first presidential candidate, John C. Fremont, ran unsuccessfully in 1856, but he carried 11 Northern states. >From 1860, when Abraham Lincoln was elected, through 1928, when H...

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