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. ... 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. ... Thus, when the sectional struggles reached their apex with the election of Abraham Lincoln as president, secession was imminent. ...

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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. ... 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. ... Thus, when the sectional struggles reached their apex with the election of Abraham Lincoln as president, secession was imminent. ...

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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. ... 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. ... Thus, when the sectional struggles reached their apex with the election of Abraham Lincoln as president, secession was imminent. ...

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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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You reach for a time where empires that stretched over continents continuously took over land, or you reach back to a time when religions continuously and relentlessly fought each other in a crusade for religious dominance for centuries. ... The people of Georgia felt that there was a conspiracy against the slave states, that the Republican Party had an agenda against them. ... The Tea Party, which became widely popular in 2009, is a modern day political party whose main goal is to turn Americas thinking process upside down and also revert back to the ideals of our Founding Fathers. An article...

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Although not all ex-slaveholding Confederates were Democrats, a vast majority pledged their allegiance to the conservative values of the political party which brought about the end of Reconstruction. ... 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 Reconstruction. Andrew Johnson, the leader of the post-Civil War Democratic Party, was himself a "confirmed racist." ... Like many of his racist fellow party-members, Johnson disliked Reconstruction and wanted to see it en...

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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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"During the 1860's was when the abolitionists crusade reached the height of its power and saw the achievement of most of its objectives, and after the war began they were transformed overnight from despised fanatics to influential and respected spokesmen for the radical wing of the Republican Party (McPherson 7)". ...

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Douglass's autobiography is one of the most important historical documents of the eighteenth century--written with the goal of abolishing slavery by reaching out to the hearts of his fellow men and women and captivating their sympathy as he describes the many roadblocks that he as a slave was forced to overcome, both physically and mentally. ... Douglass conveys to other slaves and impresses the white community when he finally manages to earn the wages and escape to the north becoming an active member of the abolitionist party that it is indeed possible for a slave of only twenty-seven ye...

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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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African Americans have been fighting for their rights for decades. The African American civil rights movement changed everything. This social movement looked to outlaw discrimination towards black Americans and obtain their right to vote. The movement did not turn to violence to get what they wanted, instead they demanded political and economic self-sufficiency. The movement was filled with major campaigns of civil resistance. ...

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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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Because of the decision reached in the case of Dred Scott, abolitionist John Brown decided to present his racial ideals and take action in order to convey the message that slavery was morally wrong. ... 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. ...

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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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The Civil War pitted Americans against each other. The sectional divisions between the North and South caused tensions leading up to the Civil War, but the issue of slavery would ultimately lead to war. Tensions evolved between the North and South before the Civil War due to their difference in econ...

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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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Frederick Douglass believed it was possible to fight slavery using the American political system, he and other political abolitionists created an anti-slavery Liberty Party. ... Douglas also took anti-slavery matters into his own hands and turned his Rochester house into a station for the Underground Railroad, where he and other antislavery activists helped many fleeing slaves reach their safe ground in Canada. ...

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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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He always knew that the institution of slavery was on the line when the Republican Party took hold of office, but was the secession commissioner's main message throughout the South geared towards racial inequality and justifiable segregation, and was this the reason that excited Southerners to go to war? ... According to Dew, "the past is far from dead in the Southern reaches of the United States (7). ...

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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. ... No agreement has been reached on its cause so there is no clear understanding of how it should be rectified. ...

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