In the 1850s the Whig Party submitted to the sectionalizing effects of the slavery issue while also forgoing to operate as a national political party. ... Simultaneously the Democratic Party was weakening through the means of slavery. ... While slavery was a key factor in the tumultuous end of the Second Party System, the Republican Party had a large influence on the end of the Second Party System. ... This being considered the Slave Power Conspiracy that was addressed by Lincoln, he noted that the party had Democratic ideals while expressing northern hatred against the South's political ...

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Four years later, the Kansas-Nebraska Act was much more divisive, splitting the Democratic Party according to sectional interests and augmenting the Republican Party. ... This decision provided yet another sharp division in the Democratic Party. ... Republicans were infuriated that their party's platform of non-extension of slavery had been declared unconstitutional. ... This admission further splintered the Democratic Party. ... Abraham Lincoln and the Republican Party were moving the Union in a modern direction the South did not want to follow. ...

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Four years later, the Kansas-Nebraska Act was much more divisive, splitting the Democratic Party according to sectional interests and augmenting the Republican Party. ... This decision provided yet another sharp division in the Democratic Party. ... Republicans were infuriated that their party's platform of non-extension of slavery had been declared unconstitutional. ... This admission further splintered the Democratic Party. ... Abraham Lincoln and the Republican Party were moving the Union in a modern direction the South did not want to follow. ...

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Four years later, the Kansas-Nebraska Act was much more divisive, splitting the Democratic Party according to sectional interests and augmenting the Republican Party. ... This decision provided yet another sharp division in the Democratic Party. ... Republicans were infuriated that their party's platform of non-extension of slavery had been declared unconstitutional. ... This admission further splintered the Democratic Party. ... Abraham Lincoln and the Republican Party were moving the Union in a modern direction the South did not want to follow. ...

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Each political party was unwilling to budge on their opinions, and growing more hostile and frustrated with each other by the day. ... At the time, there were 2 dueling political parties, that each wanted a certain amount of power to be controlled by the central government and the state. ... The opposing political party, the Democratic-Republicans of the South, called for a weaker central government with stronger individual States' Rights, and a strict interpretation of the Constitution. The Democratic-Republicans felt this way because they feared, that if given too much power was given t...

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The familiar narrative tells of a Democratic southern block of states that the Republicans rarely managed to get a toehold in throughout the end of the nineteenth and through the first half of the twentieth century. The Republican Party was perceived as the party of the radicals and integrationists, and the authors even mention that for much of this time "Republican" was often used as a curse word in the southern states. ... The passage of the Voting Rights Act caused two simultaneous and related shifts in the Democratic Party's demographics. First of all, southern blacks began...

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Radical Reconstruction only built upon this fear, and according to many historians the fear soon led to the emergence of a new form of absolute racism under the guise of the Reconstruction era Democratic Party. ... Not all Reconstruction era southern Democrats were racist, but the stated Democratic Party platform in just about every southern state included the goal of establishing Black Codes to limit Black suffrage. ... The way in which conservative southerners sought to achieve this racist goal was through joining the Democratic Party, which was directly responsible for the end of Reconstruc...

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As confusing as the identity of the state is, the identity of a political party shares such confusions. ... Seventy-seven percent of the population of Broward County identifies themselves with the Democrat political party with tendencies of moderate political attitudes and fifty-five percent of the leaders have more than 5 years of college (Vogel, 138). ... In the Presidential election of 2000 all four South-East Florida counties elected by majority, the democratic candidates Vice-president Al Gore and Joseph Lieberman (Division of Elections, 2000). ... The democratic candidate for governor...

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Changing the minds of these legislators was one of the most pressing challenges of early American reforms hindering the democratic process and preventing women and blacks from earning equality for many years. ... Because both parties realized that if one had the support of the other it would be more likely for them to win their equality. ... Protecting this right to free speech and publication, gave reformers a crucial weapon, and this was a mighty democratic strength indeed. ...

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Indentured Servitude - In effort to entice english subjects to the colonies parties would offer legal bonded contracts that would exchange the cost of passage across the Atlantic for up to seven years of labor in America. * The challenge was to get these struggling poor to America. ... Headright - as an economic incentive to encourage the English to settle in Virginia and other colonies sponsoring parties would offer 50 acres of land per person who migrated or who paid for the passage of others. * Because of Virginias high death rate and difficult living conditions, headrights functioned as an...

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In fact, when talking to different parties, the speech for each party started to contradict one another. ... And, as a good loyal president, Lincoln had "genuine constitutional scruples" (164), but Nixon completely violated the constitution by burglarizing democratic national headquarters. ...

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President Nixon, President Reagan, The 1960's, Civil Rights Movement, ACLU, The United States, and The Republican Party all help bring more of an explanation to the overall thesis. ... On page 42 it suggests, "To prevent the formal dismantling of the Jim Crow system, it proved highly effective in appealing to poor and working-class whites, particularly in the South, who were opposed to integration and frustrated by the Democratic Party's Civil Rights Movement....

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An immediate result of this act was the emergence of a new Republican party; on the issue of slavery, this party stated that they would not touch slavery where it already exists but they were strongly opposed to any extension of slavery; therefore, they were against popular sovereignty. In the election of 1860, Abraham Lincoln ran as the Republican candidate for president against two other democratic candidates; he came out victorious due to the split in democratic votes (Document J). ...

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The Republican and Democratic Parties experienced one of their most dramatic political differences during the Reconstruction period. ... Thereby it also anticipated and signaled the growing influence of Republican Party within Washington to Capitol Hill. The growing influence of the Republican Party led to the growing power of the Congress as well. ... Acting in the Republicans' Construction plan, Grant not only won the 1868 election, but he also won the Republican Party a strong African American voters base in the South. At this point of the Reconstruction, Republicans' victories ...

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The catalyst that fueled the birth of this convention was the election of Abraham Lincoln, a Republican who had defeated the Democratic President nominee Stephen Douglas. ... Stephen Channing sums it up very well when he states, "The party of Abraham Lincoln was inextricably identified with the spirit represented by John Brown . ...

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Carpetbaggers were white northerners that moved to the South to help with Reconstruction, and the scalawags were white southerners who also supported the Republican Party (Lichtenstein, Strasser, Rosenzweig - p.6). ... The Republican Party in 1854 was made directly as a result of the southern power wanting all states to become slave states. ... As the two parties began to form elections voting became much more important. ... Tammany Hall was a democratic organization in New York City headed by William Tweed. ...

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Sims was pronounced dead at the scene and though many said Sims was a peaceful man, authorities believed the murder was committed because of Sims frequently stating, "he would never vote a Democratic ticket. ... The two different reports were the result of the thirteen Republican Committee members and the eight democratic members. ...

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Primarily, the influence of the three-fifths division became prevalent, as its outcome was destructive since, fundamentally, it affected all of the branches of the National government, and offered the slave states an inconsistent benefit in each of the three branches: in the Legislative Branch, since the law precisely influenced and amplified the exemplification of the states that supported slavery in the House; in the Executive Branch directly through the Democratic Party, as stated in Article two of the Constitution: "the Number of Electors [is] equal to the whole Number of Senators and Repr...

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Was a Democratic-Republican from the state of New York and was an opponent of slavery who, in response to the Missouri application, sought to impose conditions that would rid slavery from Missouri for the remainder of history. James Tallmadge introduced the Tallmadge Amendment stating: "And provided, that the further introduction of slavery or involuntary servitude be prohibited, except for the punishment of crimes, whereof the party shall have been fully convicted; and that all children born within the said State, after the admission thereof into the Union, shall be free at the age of t...

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In 1834 Honest Abe started his political career and he was elected for the Illinois legislator, he joined the unpopular Whig party, the people realized that he was considered with in the politics of the county and the state which got him reelected again for the whole eight years, later he joined the Republican Party. ... In the year 1858, the Illinois Republican party nominated Lincoln to run for the senate against the democratic Stephen Douglas, Abraham gave his acceptance speech and opposed slavery and people noticed that he was antislavery; here are two of my favorite quotes of Abraham Linc...

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The Republican platform specifically pledged not to extend slavery, "that the normal condition of all the territory of the United States is that of freedom; that as our Republican fathers, when they had abolished slavery in all our national territory" and "that in the recent vetoes by the federal governors of the acts of the Legislatures of Kansas and Nebraska, prohibiting slavery in those territories, we find a practical illustration of the boasted democratic principle of non-intervention and popular sovereignty, embodied in the Kansas-Nebraska bill, and a demonstration of the ...

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Lincoln was against slavery, and against its spread into the Western territories, but along with many in his party, believed that it would eventually fade away without conflict. ... One could best describe this society as a capitalistic economy with liberal religious beliefs and democratic government with no demonstrated credence to authority; the individual is left with the absolute rationale over its decisions. ...

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This philosophy was extremely damaging to several parties who found themselves in the path of the hordes of American migrants, yet Americans believed it was their destiny to expand their nation across the entire continent. ... Our nation's ancestors believed that the American culture of white supremacy gave them the entitlement to dominate and seize any territories held by other foreign powers; considering their democratic lifestyles better than any other in the world. ...

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Both political parties, Federalists and Democratic " Republicans, were apprehensive of the Catholic residents of the Trans " Mississippi West because of the possible inability to concatenate with the harmony of America's current political, economic, and social systems (Document 7). ...

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This occurred as the other, more industrial, interests of the broad based party dominated their platform; leaving the blacks to face the wrath of the Southerners. ... The Supreme Court had permitted the legal route for subordination of the Blacks to be opened; the new, now limited, amendments were no longer roadblocks, and the Southerners swarmed to their state governments to disenfranchise the Negroes and to ensure that a white, democratic control continued in the South. ...

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