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What did the republican party support that many southerners were opposed to?

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When the Republican party was formed 1n 1854, its main plank was to keep slavery from expanding into the Western territories. Most of the landowners interested in settling these territories (especially Texas) were slave-holding Southerners. The Democratic party had been associated with Southern slaveholder interests since its inception, and Southerners associated the Republicans with Northern crusaders and busybodies.

Around the early 20th Century, the roles of the two parties began to shift. Republicans, who had been progressives up through the Theodore Roosevelt presidency, became more associated with big business. Democrats were morphing into two nearly separate parties, with Southern Democrats increasingly taking their own path.

By the Franklin Roosevelt administration in 1933, mainstream Democrats had become the liberal party (Black voters, loyal Republicans since Lincoln, were mostly lured over to the Democrat side by FDR) and Republicans had been the conservative one for a couple of decades. By the 1960s, the South was overwhelmingly Republican (although it would still yield a surprising number of Democratic governors and presidents).

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in 1803 the louisiana purchase took place, doubling the size of the country. by 1840 almost 7 million americans had migrated westward in hopes of securing land and being prosperous. the belief that settlers were destined to expand to the west is often referred to as manifest destiny.

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the assassination of president lincoln was just one part of a larger plot to decapitate the federal government of the u.s. after the civil war. the first reaction to lincoln’s death was disbelief. then it quickly changed to grief. abraham lincoln’s death created an outpouring of grief from citizens in both the north and the south.

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lincoln was the first u.s. president to be assassinated. president abraham lincoln, america’s civil war leader, was assassinated just five days after confederate general robert e. lee surrendered his army at appomattox court house, ending the four-year war between the states. on the evening of april 14, 1865, lincoln was attending a performance of our american cousin at ford’s theatre in washington, d.c. john wilkes booth – a 26-year old actor, confederate sympathizer, and white supremacist – slipped into the presidential box and shot lincoln in the head. john wilkes booth and his conspirators had initially planned to kidnap lincoln to save the confederate states. but as the confederacy faltered, booth’s thoughts turned to murder. booth may have decided to act on his hatred after lincoln endorsed giving the right to vote to african-american men who had served in the union army.