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Slavery and the Second Party System

            In Eric Foner's "A Short History of Reconstruction" he offers the readers an in depth analysis and commentary on this deeply historical period in the United States. Throughout his book Foner continues a clear stance on the Civil War and shortcomings on the Reconstruction while answering questions reasonably in the book, making his book resourceful and great for academia. From Foner's writings I will apply my understanding of them and answer the following questions, how slavery ended the Second Party System in the 1850's and how the Republican Party played a role in this. The Republican Party's role in changing the south politically and societally, and how the definition of freedom changed over time through 1860 and 1877. .
             During the election of 1860 the United States spanned the entire continent. This in turn created a source of nationalistic pride for the expansionist whom believed in the Manifest Destiny, that is was the fulfillment of God's wish and the American's duty to expand its republican institutions. But the national pride soon lost life when American's found them face to face with the issue of whether slavery should follow the expansionists in to the new territories. During the 1850s several different views on slavery's expansion and its position in America's future gave doubt and resentment between the northerners and southerners. Which led to how slavery ended the Second Part System. 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. Just as the nation the Whigs could not sustain itself while being half slave owning and the other half free. Simultaneously the Democratic Party was weakening through the means of slavery. An overlapping ideal in Foner's book, essentially says that slavery is a solvent of democracy. This allows for democracy to disband and eventually end the Second Party System.


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1. Two Party System

Over the years, America's two-party system has changed due to changes in electoral behavior and party dominance. Changes in America's two-party system can be broken up into five distinct systems. ... Jackson's election in 1828 marked the second party system. ... Many issues came forth during this time, such as tariff issues, economic issues, and the issue of slavery. ... Finally, the Great Depression marked the fifth party system. ...

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2. Third Party

Secondly, historically third parties have been formed to address single issues. ... The issue the Republican Party was formed around was the expansion of slavery into newly created states and territories. The Free Soil Party is a strong example of a single-issue party formed with the goal of abolishing slavery in the United States. ... These parties seek to change the system as a whole. ... A more multi-party system is necessary in a democracy as opposed to a two-party system. ...

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3. Whigs And Democrats

John Locke said in his "Second Treatise of Civil Government" (1690), "all men were fundamentally equal in the sense that no man had jurisdiction over any other man. ... The only government the Whigs favored was the "American System." ... Lucky to agree on anything, this brought to the arrival of the Two Party System. The Two Party System arouse out of the competition between the Democratic and Whig party's. ... Initially the Whig party first started to embrace the National Republican's American System after the Panic of 1837, which happened under Jackson who they completely despise...

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4. Political Parties

But the caucus system became unpopular because it gave other party members little voice in the selection of candidates. ... Under this system, party members chose delegates to represent them at nominating conventions. ... Unitary and federal systems. ... The presidential system. ... The parliamentary system. ...

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5. Doublethink

This way the totalitarian leaders of Oceania, the Inner Party, can control the knowledge of the people in the society, Outer Party and the Proletarians, to wipe out all heretical thought by destroying unorthodox words and meanings. ... To do this, the Party follows their slogans of, "War is Peace", "Freedom is Slavery" and Ignorance is Strength", each one a summary of the blueprint of the Party's workings. ... The second, "Freedom is Slavery", means that the freedom of the Inner Party's high ground leads to slavery within the governing system whereby they have to constantly make de...

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6. Why the Civil War Erupted in the US?

The South's economic system was based on cotton, which needed slaves to work the fields. ... The newly formed Republican Party nominee was Abraham Lincoln. The Democratic Party was split between the loyalist and those with slave-holding interests. ... John Bell was the nominee for the Constitutional Union Party. ... Following Lincoln's inauguration, the second wave of secession began on April 17 with Virginia. ...

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7. civil war

Formation of Republican Party 4. ... The event I have ranked second would be the Secession of South Carolina. ... Since Kansas and Nebraska were north of the line established in the Missouri Compromise, the act made possible the extension of the slave system into territory previously considered free soil. ... Antislavery groups had met together and formed a new party, which is called the Republican Party. ... Most of the Republican Party was Northerns. ...

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8. History

He is sometimes called the "father of the the American factory system." 1790 Eli Whitney- Whitney, a skilled and prolific inventor, invented the cotton gin in 1793. ... Webster stated that the Constitution was a document for the people, and that the states could not interfere. 1830 Second Great Awakening- The Second Great Awakening began as an emotional counteroffensive to the deism identified with the French Revolution. Second Great Awakening ministers assaulted Calvinism by stressing the mercy, love, and benevolence of God. ... The party opposed the expansion of slavery into the terr...

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9. The Cause of The Civil War

The North was supported by the Republican Party, formerly the Whigs, while the South remained the Democratic Party. Both parties clashed heads regularly on the issue of slavery, with each political decision drawing the nation closer to a war. ... Magnified by the recent Second Great Awakening, Northerners religious and moral views were dependent upon religious principles set forth over 100 years before the Civil War, and thus, couldn't understand the South's arguments. ... The South was a system of corruption and evil. ... In a stream of events, the two different belief systems t...

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