SC Political Timeline

  • Democratic-Republicans were the dominant political party in the U.S

  • Abraham Lincon was elected the first republican president

  • Democratic presdients Roosevelt and Truman both support desegregation

  • Republicans are formed against the expansion of slavery

  • Strom runs for president as the dixie nominee

  • Democrat presidents kennedy and johnson both support the civil rights act

  • Southern democrats began to reedem the south and formed the solid south

  • Laws such as the education improvement act were passed

  • South Carolina's first female governor, Nikki Haley, is elected