Grand Old Partisan

Know your Republican Heritage – QUIZ #1

Republicans would benefit tremendously from appreciating the heritage of our Grand Old Party, born in 1854 to oppose the Democratic Party’s pro-slavery policies.  See www.RepublicanBasics.com and the Grand Old Partisan blog for more information.

Here, you and your contacts can test your knowledge.  The answers are below:

Q.  How many Democrats in Congress voted for the 13th Amendment, to abolish slavery?
1)  127
2)  95
3)  34
4)  0

Q.  Which park was established by a future Chairman of the Republican National Committee?
1)  Central Park
2)  Griffith Park
3)  Franklin Park
4)  Lincoln Park

Q.  Which former Republican presidential nominee declined a nomination for Chief Justice?
1)  James Blaine
2)  Wendel Willkie
3)  Thomas Dewey
4)  Bob Dole

Q.  Who was the first Vice President to attend Cabinet meetings?
1)  Levi Morton (R-NY)
2)  Theodore Roosevelt (R-NY)
3)  Calvin Coolidge (R-MA)
4)  Charles Dawes (R-IL)

Q.  Which archaeological site was discovered by a future Republican U.S. Senator?
1)  Angkor Wat
2)  Machu Picchu
3)  Great Zimbabwe
4)  Stonehenge

 

ANSWERS:

How many Democrats in Congress voted for the 13th Amendment, to abolish slavery?
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4)  Zero.  Not even one congressional Democrat voted for the 13th Amendment, while Republicans voted unanimously to abolish slavery.

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1)  In 1853, state senator Edwin Morgan introduced into the New York legislature the bill establishing Central Park.  Three years later, he was elected the first Chairman of the RNC.

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3)  In 1969, President Richard Nixon offered to nominate Thomas Dewey to replace Chief Justice Earl Warren, but Dewey thought he was too old for the position.

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3)  Calvin Coolidge, Vice President during the Warren Harding administration.  Before then, Vice Presidents were regarded exclusively as members of the legislative branch.

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2)  The ruins of Machu Picchu were discovered in the Peruvian jungle by explorer Hiram Bingham in 1911.  Bingham would later be elected Governor of Connecticut and U.S. Senator.

 

Michael Zak is a popular speaker to Republican organizations around the nation, showing office-holders and candidates and activists how they would benefit tremendously from appreciating the heritage of our Grand Old Party.  Back to Basics for the Republican Party is his acclaimed history of the GOP cited by Clarence Thomas in a Supreme Court decision.  His blog, Grand Old Partisan, celebrates more than fifteen decades of Republican heroes and heroics.  See www.RepublicanBasics.com for more information.

 

Democrats enact their "black codes" to oppress African-Americans

On this day in 1865, the Democrat-controlled legislature of Mississippi passed the nation's first "black codes."  These were laws that the Democrats of the post-Civil War South enacted to impose near-slavery on African-Americans.

According to these Democrat laws, African-Americans could not:

vote
serve on juries
testify against white people
own guns
travel without permission
assemble for political purposes
own farmland
be outdoors at night
change jobs without permission

Democrats decreed that all African-Americans had to:

sign annual labor contracts with white masters
be deferential to all white people
be apprenticed (in practice, enslaved) to white masters until adulthood
work only in agriculture and a few other occupations

After winning a two-thirds majority in Congress, Republicans swept away the black codes by passing, over the veto of Democrat President Andrew Johnson, the Civil Rights Act and other Reconstruction legislation.  These laws guaranteed full civil rights to African-Americans, many of whom then entered politics.  As Democrats regained control of the South in the 1870s, they again oppressed African-Americans with a new set of regulations known as "Jim Crow" laws.

Michael Zak is a popular speaker to Republican organizations around the country.  He is the author of Back to Basics for the Republican Party, cited by Clarence Thomas in a Supreme Court decision.  Each day, the Grand Old Partisan blog celebrates 154 years of Republican heroes and heroics.  See www.RepublicanBasics.com for more information.

 

Martin Luther King voted for Eisenhower/Nixon

On this day in 1956, Martin Luther King voted for the Republican presidential ticket, Dwight Eisenhower and Richard Nixon.

Martin Luther King told Nixon of his vote during a public meeting in Ghana, where they were attending a presidential inauguration.

While campaigning for re-election, Vice President Richard Nixon declared: "Most of us will live to see the day when American boys and girls will sit, side by side, at any school - public or private - with no respect paid to the color of skin. Segregation, discrimination and prejudice have no place in America."

The following year, Vice President Nixon helped defeat the Democrat filibuster against the GOP's 1957 Civil Rights Act.

Michael Zak is a popular speaker to Republican organizations around the nation, showing office-holders and candidates and activists how they would benefit tremendously from appreciating the heritage of our Grand Old Party.  Back to Basics for the Republican Party is his acclaimed history of the GOP cited by Clarence Thomas in a Supreme Court decision.  His Grand Old Partisan blog celebrates more than fifteen decades of Republican heroes and heroics.  See www.RepublicanBasics.com for more information.