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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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

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. ...

• Word Count: 1330
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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

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. ...

• Word Count: 1330
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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

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...

• Word Count: 1443
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• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

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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• Grade Level: High School

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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A few examples of duties are: serving in a jury if called upon, staying informed about the community in which a citizen lives, and participating in the Democratic process. A part of the Democratic process is having the right to vote. ... Political parties also play a role into the statistics of disenfranchised citizens. ... This also contributes to election time when democratic votes are lost due to the disenfranchised citizens who claim they belong to the Democratic Party. ...

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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. ...

• Word Count: 2119
• Approx Pages: 8
• Grade Level: High School

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. ... 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. ...

• Word Count: 1668
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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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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

As his administration continued, he started shifting again towards the southern democratic way of Reconstruction. ... The 13th Amendment, section 1 states: "Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist within the United States, or any place subject to their jurisdiction." ...

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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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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...

• Word Count: 1588
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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. ...

• Word Count: 2247
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Before tackling the slavery issue, one must understand Lincoln's political views with respect to the Constitution, which was the cause for Lincoln's idea of a gradual extinction of constitution and not an immediate emancipation, which separated him from abolitionists, and explained why he was a part of the more moderate Whig Party. ... As a result Lincoln opposed any further extension of slavery in new federal territories and thought that slavery would gradually go extinct arguing that it could artificially inflate the power of the Democratic Party. ... Lincoln was a member of the co...

• Word Count: 2007
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• Grade Level: Graduate

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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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. ...

• Word Count: 1982
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The Reconstruction era that followed the American Civil War was a time of great challenge for everybody involved. Having defeated the South, suppressing the revolt and keeping the Union intact, the North gained control of the Confederation. However the states were pardoned upon completion of the "...

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One of the most hopeful signs of racial progress during the decade was civil rights leader, Jesse Jackson's run for the Democratic presidential nomination in 1988. Jackson was the firs black man to mount a serious campaign for a major party's presidential nomination. ...

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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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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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Senator, and (notwithstanding James Buchanan's occupying the presidential chair) a leader of the Democratic Party.2 He also focused on the prejudices of his audience, saying that the government was created exclusively for whites in order to advocate "popular sovereignty," which maintained the right of the citizens of a territory to permit or prohibit slavery. ...

• Word Count: 2032
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