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The 1868 Republican National Convention was held in Crosby's Opera House, Chicago, Cook County, Illinois, May 20-21, 1868. Chicago (officially named the City of Chicago) is the third largest city in the United States (after New York City and Los Angeles), with an official population of 2,896,016, as of the 2000 census. ...
Organized with approximately 100 residents in 1831, Cook County is a county located in the state of Illinois. ...
May 20 is the 140th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (141st in leap years). ...
May 21 is the 141st day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (142nd in leap years). ...
1868 was a leap year starting on Wednesday (see link for calendar). ...
Ulysses S. Grant had emerged as the frontrunner for the Republican nomination after being the Union commander in the Civil War. He was nominated unopposed on the first ballot. To balance Grant, a former Democrat and a hard drinker, the convention chose House Speaker Schuyler Colfax, a former Whig and temperance man. In Grant´s acceptance telegram he said "Let us have peace" which captured the imagination of the American people. Ulysses S. Grant (April 27, 1822 – July 23, 1885) was a Union general in the American Civil War and the 18th (1869–1877) President of the United States. ...
The Republican Party, often called the GOP (for Grand Old Party, although one early citation described it as the Gallant Old Party) [1], is one of the two major political parties in the United States. ...
The Union was a name used by many to refer to the Northern states during the American Civil War. ...
The American Civil War was fought in the United States from 1861 until 1865 between the United States – forces coming mostly from the 23 northern states of the Union – and the newly-formed Confederate States of America, which consisted of 11 southern states that had declared their secession. ...
Schuyler Colfax (March 23, 1823–January 13, 1885) was a Representative from Indiana and the 17th Vice President of the United States. ...
See: temperance (virtue) Temperance movement, a socio-political movement Temperance - album by Astrud Gilberto This is a disambiguation page — a navigational aid which lists other pages that might otherwise share the same title. ...
The Platform
The 1868 Republican platform supported black suffrage in the South but wanted the northern states to decide for them selves if to embrace black suffrage, opposed to using greenbacks to redeem U.S bonds, encouragement of immigration, endorsement for full rights for naturalized citiziens and favored Radical Reconstruction in opposition to President Andrew Johnson's lenient reconstruction. In the history of the United States, Reconstruction was the period after the American Civil War when the southern states of the breakaway Confederacy were reintegrated into the United States of America. ...
Andrew Johnson (December 29, 1808 – July 31, 1875) was the sixteenth Vice President (1865) and the seventeenth President of the United States (1865–1869), succeeding to the presidency upon the assassination of Abraham Lincoln. ...
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