HIST 1305 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Doughface, Southern Democrats, Reconstruction Era
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For abraham lincoln, the civil war meant the end of republican indecorum because the marriage would have been preserved by armed forces power not the consent of the southern masses . Southern black codes allowed the catch on vagrancy charges of former hard worker who failed to sign yearly labor contract bridge . The development of the west after the civil war produced large -scale capitalist enterprises such as railroads, mining party , meatpacking houses, and fossil oil re ning. The main purpose of the ku klux klan was to destroy the republican party , by murder if necessary. The via media of 1850 settled the borderline dispute between texas and new mexico in favor of new mexico and remuneration new mexico trillion one dollar bill in compensation. Hinton helper"s the impending crisis urged non-slaveholding southern whites to rally around the plantation owner elite or face the inevitable end of "herrenvolk democracy. "