Tuesday, May 18, 2010
Republican Party Venn Diagram
The Republican Party was formed in the 1850s. Abraham Lincoln was the first president elected from the party. In my 8th grade US History classes I have my students do a venn diagram comparing the platforms of the Republican Party with the platforms of the Republican Party today. My students are always surprised to find out after completing the diagram that the Republican party has evolved quite a bit so much since the 1850s until today that if Abraham Lincoln were running today, he likely would not be in the party. It led to a good discussion of how political parties are always evolving and the platforms that they hold today, could change quite a bit in the next several years. Students were able to see how the tea party movement going on right now is an example of how the republican party could potentially be evolving.
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Sounds like an indepth study for the students and what a great job in comparing the "Then and Now" of the Republican Party. It was an interesting analogy how you wove into the conversation the Tea Party Movement of today. We are trying to start a Coalition (Tea Party Movement) in Moab. It is a learning curve that has long familiar roots into our country's founding, and your right, it is causing change in the Parties.
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