Over two hundred Ohioans reached the rank of general; among them were Ulysses S. ... As a member of the Democratic party, Vallandigham was elected to Congress in 1858. ... Out of the twenty-two Ohioans who reached the rank of major general during the war, sixteen boasted a West Point education as their professional badge.# James A. ... 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 confuse...

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These political choices put Johnson in the states' rights and of the Democratic Party. ... Johnson's decision to support the return of the pre-war social and economic system except for slavery cut short any hope for a redistribution of land to the freed-people or a more far-reaching reform program in the South. ... 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 ...

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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. ... It was due to the economy, high taxes, racial tension, loss of northern support, the split within the Republican Party, and a number of other issues. ... 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...

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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. ... Birney of Ohio who gathered all anti-slavery forces into one unit called the Liberty Party and Frederick Douglass, who was an escaped slave who became a black editor. ... The newly formed Republican party nominated Abraham Lincoln on principles that opposed the further expansion of slavery. ... It was all described when a Southern man said "We have at last reached that point in our history when it is necessary...

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In 1834, Lincoln ran again for the general assembly as a member of the new Whig party. ... Abraham Lincoln became one of the leading members of the Republican Party. ... When the trained reached to Springfield on May 3, Abraham Lincoln was buried there. ...

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When the Civil War began, Harriet Tubman was attached to the Union Army in South Carolina, serving as a cook, nurse, scout for raiding parties, and spy behind Confederate lines. ... Many of them, however, once they reached the free states, were guided along prearranged Underground Railroad routes, receiving shelter and supplies at "stations," as the homes of the Railroad's supporters were known. ...

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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. ... Sherman's troops faced light resistance along the march, fighting only one significant battle before reaching the outskirts of Savannah on Dec. 10. ...

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The then presidential candidate of the Republican Party was completely against slavery in the U.S. ... Maybe if it would have taken place, the contentious issues would have been handled and an amicable solution reached at by the parties. ... Since the two attempts to agree on the contentious issue of slavery between the southern and the northern states had failed to take place, the next course of action that was to be taken was to go to war, the most uncivilized way to settle contentious issues between parties (James & Michael, 47). ...

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Dwindling supplies forced Steele to send out foraging parties. ... Steele reaches Jenkin's Ferry first but the Saline River is swollen and he is forced to cross slowly on pontoon bridges one wagon at a time. ... Smith is delayed by the swollen Saline River and misses his opportunity to destroy the Union Army before it reaches the safety of Little Rock. ...

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It is of no use and always leaves a scar on both parties. ... We will never reach peace by fighting because there will always be one country who suffers the most damage after the war leaving them without freedom or tranquility. ... When we pose for war as a solution, the aim becomes one, complete submission of the opposite party irrelevance to the humanity. ... Both the Soviet Union and the United States, along with their respective allies, provided significant military assistance to parties in conflict. ...

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This movement entered a new stage in 1840, when some of its leaders entered politics and founded the Liberty Party. ... Birney, ran for president of this party in 1840 and 1844. Abolitionists became important to the Free Soil Party in 1848. After 1854, many abolitionists supported the Republican Party. ...

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Once that state reached ten percent of the people taking oath, the state could form a state government. ... Election of 1876 - In the 1876 election Tilden was the winner when the votes were counted but in 3 states both parties claimed victory. ...

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President Lincoln's major goal was to strength the Republican Party in the South. ... The official reconstruction of the south ended in 1877, but the attitudes have taken over a hundred years to change, and the attempt to make that change reached a boiling point during the 1960s. ...

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Abraham Lincoln was a very great man. He did many great things for our county. Abe Lincoln showed great leadership and he brought our country to a whole. If not for him, our country might still be divided today. Abraham Lincoln was born in Hardin, Kentucky on February 12, 1809. Currently the cou...

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Then the introduction of refrigerated rail cars would allow southern produce to reach northern markets, which would further diversify the southern economy. ... Thomas, an African American coal miner and organizer for the Greenback-Labor party in the Birmingham mineral district, stopped in the town of Oxmoor to post signs announcing a public meeting where he was scheduled to speak. ...

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The European party was unable to penetrate the Cherokee front. ... "For his own safety, Aurthor was sent with one of the chief's raiding parties and traveled during his year with the Cherokee to points as far south as Western Florida and Port Royal, and as far North as the state of Ohio and Kanawha Valley. ...

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The Republican Party, dominant in the North, secured a majority of the electoral votes, and Lincoln was elected the first Republican president, but before his inauguration, seven slave states with cotton-based economies formed the Confederacy. ... The Republican Party was determined to prevent any spread of slavery, and many Southern leaders had threatened secession if the Republican candidate, Lincoln, won the 1860 election. ...

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After they threw 90,000 pounds of English Tea into the Boston harbor in the famed Boston Tea Party, the king was furious because the waste of the tea had cost him a great deal of money (Conroy). ... Also, the Boston Tea Party caused the king to take overly drastic measures: he laid Boston under siege (Rosenfeld). ...

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