One being the party system, two being the birth of the Republican party, three being the Republicans expanding their platform to other states, and four being growing differences between the north and south concerning slavery. ... Basically it is broken down like this; there was a huge split between the political parties caused by slavery. The northerners went Republican, and the southerners went Democratic, which meant that the Whigs were totally abandoned by both parties. ...

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The party itself was generally a more anti-slavery party. ... Lincoln, who was more conservative then most of the other republicans in his party, stated that he was against equal rights in voting and office holding of women. ... The Democratic Party was united behind the document of Popular Sovereignty. There were two candidates for the Democratic Party was Stephen A. ... The main Democratic representative was John C. ...

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And like President Clinton, Johnson was a Democratic president who faced a Republican controlled Congress. ... House of Representatives passed a resolution impeaching the President of "high crimes and misdemeanors" by a strict party vote of 128 to 47. ... President Johnson had remained in office as a lame duck president, and unsuccessfully sought the Democratic Party's presidential nomination in 1868. When the end of his term came around, he returned home to Tennessee where he began rebuilding his political base of support and unsuccessfully searched the Democratic nomination for vario...

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Southerners saw him as a despotic tyrant, while members of his own party viewed him as a backwoods fool without the courage to take on the slavery issue directly. ... About the Election The split in the Democratic Part virtually assured a Republican victory in the presidential election. The leading Democratic candidate, Stephan A. ... Meanwhile, the Republican Party chose Abraham Lincoln who had gained national recognition for his condemnation of slavery. Also running was John Bell of the Constitutional Union Party, which was made up of former members of the Whig and Know-Nothing parties. ...

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He was never very popular with either party within his state. ... First of all the election between him and Alcorn had already split the Republican Party in Mississippi8. ... Redeemers would use all of these issues to turn many Republicans, black and white, against their own party. ... After the Vicksburg riots, leaders of the Democratic Party met in the capital and came up with a plan to end Republican rule in Mississippi once and for all15. ... The Redeemers who met in Jackson spread word of these events all around the state in order to scare whites toward a Democratic vote. ...

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As a member of the Democratic party, Vallandigham was elected to Congress in 1858. ... He was considered by many members of the Republican Party as being an extreme radical with violent passions, extreme opinions and narrow views who was surrounded by the worst and most violent elements in the Republican Party. ... The issues were all confused and entangled, but Sherman was clear that secession must not succeed.# A member of the Republican party, Sherman was elected to the House of representatives and served as chairman of the Ways and Means Committee. ...

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During this time a surge of democratic reform swept the North and West. ... This act was sponsored by the Democratic senator Stephen A. ... This act split the Democratic party and destroyed the Whig party also. The northern Whigs joined antislavery Democrats to form the Republican party in July 1854. ... The newly formed Republican party nominated Abraham Lincoln on principles that opposed the further expansion of slavery. ...

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These political choices put Johnson in the states' rights and of the Democratic Party. ... These political choices put Johnson in the states' rights andof the Democratic Party Most importantly, Johnson's strong commitment to obstructing political and civil rights for blacks is responsible for the failure of Reconstruction to solve the race problem in the South and perhaps in America as well. ...

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He also shunned the evolution of the two party system and regional separation. ... As President, Lincoln helped build the strength of the Republican Party, swayed the northern Democrats to the Union cause, and in 1863, he issued his controversial Emancipation Proclamation. ... Roosevelt was selected as the Democratic candidate to run against incumbent Herbert Hoover. ...

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This caused a great scare to the Republican Party because they were now losing the blacks votes. ... The Republican Party began the downward slide, only keeping control of South Carolina, Louisiana, and Florida. ... The racism (white and black, Republican and Democratic) that also came with the reconstruction added to the injustices of the Radical Reconstruction. ...

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The Democratic Party went to bribe judges so their grant would get accepted. ... They also tried t o negate the republicans strength bye fusing the 3 opposing parties, Whigs, Know Nothings, and American parties. ...

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Abraham Lincoln was the sixteenth president of the United States. He served as president from 1861 until 1865. He was one of the greatest leaders in American History. A civilized, far-sighted statesman in his lifetime, he became a legend and a folk hero after his death. Soon after Lincoln was elec...

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To have power over the Congress and the courts, the fresh Republican Party outlawed the spread of slavery. Their fighting fit political campaign plan, joined with a troublesome subject which ripped the Democratic Party, led to the appointment of Abraham Lincoln as President of the United States and South Carolina's secession from the Union. ...

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In 1848 Charles Sumner joined the Whig party to help form the Free Soil Party . ... Charles Sumner was also uncertain about his role in the Republican party. During the 1860 election, Charles Sumner was concerned with the Republican party remaining true to its principles. ... In 1874 Sumner was almost the only surviving original Republican leader who could still command and influence within his party. ... He later was aware that he was running against the Democratic candidate of Josiah G. ...

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The Democratic Party nominated James Buchanan who ran on a platform that supported states" rights. ... By 1860 the Northern states felt the sectional issues were simply an issue of right and wrong and the Republican Party capitalized on this belief. ...

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In 1846, at the age of 23, was hired as the editor of the Brooklyn Daily newspaper; however, two years later he was fired because he was an adamant supporter of the Free Soil faction of the Democratic party. ... Through his writings, Whitman struggled with the rest of the world between the powers of "one's self" and "em masse", as he states in his poem, "One's-Self I Sing": "One's-self I sing, a simple separate person, yet utter the word Democratic, the word En-Masse (Whitman 1) ."...

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Besides his distaste for the system, he felt that the South could not come back into the Union after trying to destroy it.( The Emancipation Proclamation [ushistory.org]) Lincoln's philosophy of preserving the Union was his main priority, but, the opposing Democratic Party had threatened to turn itself into an anti-war party with destruction of the Union. ...

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Rather it was a step taken reluctantly only when an otherwise divided party of radicals, as well as non radical Republicans agreed that the presidents activities threatened to overturn congressional reconstruction legislation." and in this essay I am going to evaluate the merits and shortcomings of the book. ... By endorsing black suffrage in the reconstruction act, Republicans had already opened themselves to the democratic charges of radicalism they had so successfully blunted themselves to the previous years. ...

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He was a democratic idealist, and in those days these people would turn to America. ... Because of President Johnson's views against abolishing slavery or preserving the Union he was at odds with the Republican Party. These differences pulled the party together and helped them appear united. ...

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Black Involvement in the Civil War "We must fight now, not because we want to subjugate the South but because we must," (McPherson 486) was the cry of the Northerners during slavery. Like Galations 5:1 states, "It is for freedom that Christ has set us free. Stand firm then, and do not let yours...

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Lincoln's Gettysburg Address, second inaugural address, and many of his other speeches and writings are statements of democratic beliefs and goals. ... Lincoln, a Republican, was the first member of his party to become president. ...

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In the Black Hills of South Dakota stands the largest sculpture in the world carved into the side of a mountain. The faces of George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Theodore Roosevelt, and Abraham Lincoln were the four courageous men that were considered for the carving. These men stood for the upbringing of our country, America. Mount Rushmore has served as a patriotic symbol that stands for America's freedom and history. These individuals have also set the standards for our country that have helped with the judicial system and setting morals for citizens to live by. ...

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