was it abolitonists,suffnagettes,unionist or refuseniks?
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underground railroad& abolitionists
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Northerners weren't gung-ho about going to war and especially about being drafted. In New York City, a riot of draft resisters broke out at Tompkins Square Park in Manhattan. Bloody mess. Also most northerners didn't know how to use firearms because they never hunted for wild game. It was new to them. Also the North couldn't find a military leader. They changed them like shirts until U.S. Grant took over. To get soliders the north recruited from Ireland and Germany.
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You had Stephen Douglas who was an old school Democrat but believed in keeping things the way they were. The Southern Democrats were not pleased and demanded a Constitutional Ammendment or a law that would protect slavery. The argument was so heated the Souther Democrats put up thier own choice; James Breckenridge who promised such. The other two parties were the Constitution Party, equivilent to today's Green Party in the sense that who cares about them? Bah. Then the Republicans. You see; back in the day you had the Whigs and the Democrats. The Democrats were the champions of the everyday man being in charge. The Whigs believed strongly in the smartest of the elite being in charge. Then the Whig Party suddenly went free soil and crazily liberal. The classic conservatives of the day all switched over to the Democratic Party. That left the shattered remnents of the Whig Party which soon collapsed under it's own weight. Then came the Republicans who failed to garner success in their first White House bid with John C. Fre'mont and God be praised for it; he was a loon. Thier next try they got in with Lincoln and then the rest is Civil War history.
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dixie chick,.  they can't kepp their mouths shut\nb
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They were probably the first to do most. They probably had a live in lover/wife. People didn't frown on two women living together. They were probably more politically active than most. They probably did more for women's right in general. They have probably never really needed a man. I'm sure they had male friends but much more self reliant and not using feminine wiles to seduce.
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They say that the most disenfranchised and likely to join hate groups of the counter-American variety are first generation American born of immigrants who are still in poverty and see others who have had generations to move out of that condition.\n\nI don't know.  I'd want to know who the parents of these people were. I do understand that the Londen bombers had people who fit that demographic, however.
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Truman and he was a democrat.  That was a long time ago, before Vietnam.  It's interesting how times have changed things.  Most conservatives today would be considered left wing fanatics by Turmans standards.  Liberals today would seem to be from a different planet all together.
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Handsome liberals, angry conservatives with prematurely furrowed brows.  \n\nNo fights as long as no beer was served. \n\nIn truth, a lot of people are here just to argue a position. They're not the avid political junkies, or fervent fundamentalists they appear to be.
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my 4 years in college I have to say most were liberals, even had 2 communists but only 1 conservative.  Still I say no and I am sure most of the conservative professors would agree.
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They were all shysters and womanizers.\n\nHey is this some vast right wing conspiracy?
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unity?\n you think it brought fu*king unity!\n\nyou are the biggest idiot on earth if you think that. If anything it brought fear, hate, and violent racism on anyone that did not fit the pure Russian Communist bill. My grandmother was a Atheist and a college professor in Moscow. Do you think that helped her escape abject poverty? \n\nwould it have helped her when Stalin was planing to put her and her infant child on a cattle car headed for Siberia!\n\nyou seriously need to learn some history before you talk about what you dont know.
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yes. but now they're called neo natzis. i am not one and i don't know anyone that's involved in anything like that.  but they are definantly out there.
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did you mean "verraters" (the a with the two points)?, if yes than it means traitors.
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Yes. Only cowards is not the word I would use. I'd probably call them-\n\nA bunch of hypocritical p*ssies who didn't mind when their countries were bailed out during WWII when they were getting their *sses kicked by the Axis.\n(That would be for the Europeans).\n\nAnd for the Americans:\nA bunch of left wing bigots who are more concerned about the price of gas than they are about the lives of the people who live on the land above their precious crude oil.
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haha im in advanced history \nfederalist favored the constitution\nbasicaly they were the first political party  \nso  c\nbecause they wanted a new constitution
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Reconstructionist is the most liberal.\nReform, and even Conservative (despite its name) are more liberal than most religious movements in the US.
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close enough.  they were some sort of social pariah.