Examples of Northern Democrats in the following topics:
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- Meanwhile, despite the controversial Dred Scott decision, Stephen
Douglas and many other Northern Democrats continued their support of popular
sovereignty as the final authority on the admission of slavery into new
territories, while Republicans denounced any measure that would allow for the
expansion of slavery.
- While
the president received the support of the Southern Democrats, Northern
Democrats and Republicans denounced the blatant violation of the will of the
popular majority in Kansas.
- In 1858, in an effort to win Northern support for the popular
sovereignty argument, Douglas entered into a series of debates with Abraham
Lincoln who was challenging him for the Illinois congressional seat.
- This
argument, which became known as the Freeport Doctrine, alienated many
Southerners from the Northern Democrats permanently.
- Douglas broke with the Democratic Party leadership over the Lecompton Constitution.
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- However, Northern Whigs resented the Compromise of 1850,
believing that the bill favored the slaveholding South.
- The Democrats also met in Baltimore in June 1852 and selected Franklin
Pierce—a rather obscure public figure at the time—as their candidate.
- Arguing that Pierce was a “Northern
man with Southern principles,” Democrats were able to make a case for his
nomination that appealed to both Northern and Southern party members.
- Southern
Democrats were convinced that Pierce's administration would secure the future
of slavery in the territories, while Northern Democrats were relieved to
nominate a candidate who did not espouse radical proslavery or antislavery
principles.
- During his years in office, Pierce’s support of the Compromise
of 1850—particularly his rigorous enforcement of the Fugitive Slave Act—appalled
and alienated many Northerners, including factions of the Democratic Party.
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- In 1860, these issues
exploded when the Democratic Party officially splintered into Northern and
Southern factions, and, in the face of a divided and dispirited opposition, the
Republican Party secured enough electoral votes to put Abraham Lincoln in the
White House with very little support from the South.
- By
1860, the Democratic Party had officially split into Northern and Southern factions
with tensions errupting in the aftermath of the Dred Scott decision.
- Southern
Democrats resented the Northern Democrats' continued support of popular
sovereignty as the best method to determine a territory's free or slave status
in spite of Dred Scott.
- Northern Democrats nominated Stephen A.
- With the Democrats in
disarray and with a sweep of the Northern states possible, the Republicans were
confident going into their convention in Chicago.
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- Most remaining Northern Whigs, including Abraham Lincoln, began to
form factions that attacked the Act, appealing to widespread Northern outrage
over the repeal of the Missouri Compromise.
- Northern Democrats, such as Stephen Douglas, believed that the slavery issue
should be decided by popular sovereignty.
- The more conservative Southern
Democrats such as John C.
- Many Northern, antislavery Democrats flocked to
the Free-Soil coalition and joined Northern Whigs to form the Republican
Party, whereas Southern, proslavery Democrats coalesced to form the Southern
Democratic Party.
- As a result, the Democrats became almost entirely a Southern
party platform, alienating any existing Northern supporters who were largely
antislavery.
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- The Kansas-Nebraska Act of 1854, however, drafted by
Democrat Stephen A.
- To many
Northerners, Sumner was considered an antislavery martyr for standing up for
his convictions.
- Southern
Democrats were pleased that the Kansas-Nebraska Act repealed the Missouri
Compromise, while Northerners (including Northern Democrats) decried the opening
of territory to slave owners where slavery had previously been prohibited for more than 30 years.
- Already a fractured party, the Whigs collapsed and made way
for the Northern-dominated Republican Party: a coalition of Free-Soilers,
Northern Democrats, and antislavery forces that bitterly resented the repeal of
the Missouri Compromise.
- This, in turn, gave rise to the Know-Nothing Party, a
political movement composed of ex-Whigs looking for a vehicle to fight the
dominant Democratic Party.
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- Democrats were
also split over the slave question, with Southern Democrats arguing that
slavery was central to the American national economy and society, and Northern
Democrats feeling alienated under the growing Southern Democratic Party
platform.
- Northern Democrats, however, opposed the Lecompton Constitution
after it was voted down by the majority of Kansas settlers, believing that passage of the Lecompton Constitution would violate popular
sovereignty.
- In 1858, in an effort to win Northern support for the
popular sovereignty argument, incumbent Democratic Senator Stephen Douglas
entered into a series of debates with Abraham Lincoln, who was challenging him
for the Illinois congressional seat.
- In 1860, sectional conflicts over the expansion of slavery
into the territories exploded when the Democratic Party officially splintered
into Northern and Southern factions.
- Northern Democrats nominated Stephen
Douglas whose campaign emphasized compromise in order to prevent disunion.
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- In spring 1854, the Know-Nothings enjoyed rapid success in many northern cities, especially in Massachusetts.
- Furthermore, like the Whigs, the Know-Nothings could not find a way to keep their Northern and Southern factions together on a party platform.
- While the Democrats survived, many northern Democrats flocked to the Free Soilers coalition and the newly-formed Republican Party, while Southern, proslavery Democrats formed the Southern Democratic Party.
- In short, the Democrats became almost entirely a southern party platform, which alienated its northern supporters who resisted the Southern proslavery political agenda.
- President Andrew Jackson was hailed as the founder of the Democratic Party.
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- In 1908, Theodore Roosevelt persuaded the Republican Party to nominate William Howard Taft to run against Democratic candidate William Bryan.
- Despite these two previous defeats, Bryan remained extremely popular among the more liberal and populist elements of the Democratic Party.
- As a result, Bryan ended up with the worst of his three defeats in the national popular vote, losing almost all the Northern states to Taft and the popular vote by eight percentage points.
- The northern states went Republican, as did contiguous territory in Kansas.
- Bryan won all of the southern states, Texas, Nebraska, Colorado, and Nevada, while Taft won the rest of the midwest, pacific, and all the northern states.
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- In most cases, the carpetbaggers won out, and many scalawags moved into the conservative or Democratic opposition.
- Schoolteachers and religious missionaries arrived in the South, some sponsored by northern churches.
- Scalawags were denounced as corrupt by Democrats.
- The Democrats alleged the scalawags to be financially and politically corrupt, and willing to support bad government because they profited personally.
- During the 1870s, many scalawags left the Republican Party and joined the conservative-Democrat coalition.
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- After the election of 1876, the Democrats were promised that federal troops would be removed from the remaining Southern states.
- Grant signed the Electoral Commission Act that set up a 15-member commission to settle the disputed 1876 election of 8 Republicans and 7 Democrats.
- With the removal of Northern troops, the President had no method to enforce Reconstruction, thus this "back room" deal signaled the end of American Reconstruction.
- Key from Tennessee, a Southern Democrat, to the position of Postmaster General.
- The Democrats gained control of the Senate, and now had complete control of Congress having already taken over the House in 1875.