The Ideology of the Republican Party Before the Civil War

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                                                                                Richard Mark Endaya                                                                                        Period 4

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The Ideology of the Republican Party Before the Civil War

        It is historian Eric Foner’s thesis that the republican’s ideology of antagonism toward the South was closely devoted to the society in the North. Although that their ideology toward race in regard to the slaves signaled the mistakes and failures of the post-emancipation years, it was the driving force for anti-slavery sentiment.

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        The Republicans were obliged to make anti-slavery the main focus of their political ideology due to political reasons and the Northern society. The fact that many abolitionists supported the Republican Party is an indication that anti-slavery formed a big party of the Republican ideology. It was one of the few policies which united the republican factions. Most politicians agreed that slavery was the major issue of the decade between 1850 and 1860. The Douglas Democrats believed that the South had embarked upon a crusade to force slavery into all territories, and protested that approval of that goal would destroy the ...

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