Why were Democrats called Copperheads during Lincolns time?
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because lincolns enemies thought that the antiwar democrats were dangerous.. like the snake the copperhead\nbut liberty was on the penny at that time so they took to the name and made it their own.\nthey wore pennies like badges
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The Democratic Republican Party was the precursor of the Modern day Democrat Party. The party grew out of the anti-Federalist sentiments of men like Thomas Jefferson which originally focused on the proper power and relative authority of the Federal and State governments.\n\nThe Democratic Republicans (who generally referred to themselves simply as "Republicans" prior to 1820) favored the state governments over the Federal, the small yeoman farmer over city dwellers, and opposed both the Federal Court system and the National Bank.
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Lincoln Steffens was an American author, editor, lecturer, and reformer.  He was one of a group of writers known as muckrakers because their magazine articles during the early 1900's exposed corruption in government, business, and labor.  Starting in 1902, with an expose of crooked political practices in St. Louis, he wrote about conditions in U.S. cities and states.  \n\nThe articles that made him famous were written for McClure's Magazine, exploiting crooked politicians as well as crooked practices in the business world.
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Lincoln, Republican\nDouglas, Northern Democrat\nBreckenridge, Southern Democrat\nBell, Constitutional Union\n\nAnd I agree with dac2chari - I shouldn't have answered this, she said what I usually say.  And yes, I used Google.
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abe lincoln was shot in the head.
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I believe it was Abraham Lincoln,her is some info...\n\nAbraham Lincoln was born on February 12, 1809, in a one-room log cabin on the 348 acre (1.4 km²) Sinking Spring Farm in the Southeast part of Hardin County, Kentucky, then considered the frontier (now part of LaRue Co., in Nolin Creek, three miles (5 km) south of Hodgenville), to Thomas Lincoln and Nancy Hanks. Lincoln was named after his deceased grandfather, who was scalped in 1786 in an Indian raid. He had no middle name. Lincoln's parents were uneducated, illiterate farmers. When Lincoln became famous, reporters and storytellers often exaggerated the poverty and obscurity of his birth. However Lincoln's father Thomas was a respected and relatively affluent citizen of the Kentucky backcountry. He had purchased the Sinking Spring Farm in December 1808 for $200 cash and assumption of a debt. The farm site is now preserved as part of Abraham Lincoln Birthplace National Historic Site. His parents belonged to a well that had pulled away from a larger church because they refused to support slavery. From a very young age, Lincoln was exposed to anti-slavery sentiment. However, he never joined his parents' church, or any other church, and as a youth ridiculed religion.\n\nThree years after purchasing the property, a prior land claim filed in Hardin Circuit Court forced the Lincolns to move. Thomas continued legal action until he lost the case in 1815. Legal expenses contributed to family difficulties. In 1811, they were able to lease 30 acres (0.1 km²) of a 230 acre (0.9 km²) farm on Knob Creek a few miles away, where they then moved. In a valley of the Rolling Fork River, this was some of the best farmland in the area. At this time, Lincoln's father was a respected community member and a successful farmer and carpenter. Lincoln's earliest recollections are from this farm. In 1815, another claimant sought to eject the family from the Knob Creek farm. Frustrated with litigation and lack of security provided by Kentucky courts, Thomas decided to move to Indiana, which had been surveyed by the federal government, making land titles more secure. It is possible that these episodes motivated Abraham to later learn surveying and become an attorney.\n\nIn 1816, when Lincoln was seven years old, he and his parents moved to Spencer County, Indiana, he would state "partly on account of slavery" and partly because of economic difficulties in Kentucky. In 1818, Lincoln's mother died of "milk sickness" at age thirty four, when Abe was nine. Soon afterwards, Lincoln's father remarried to Sarah Bush Johnston. Sarah Lincoln raised young Lincoln like one of her own children. Years later she compared Lincoln to her own son, saying "Both were good boys, but I must say — both now being dead that Abe was the best boy I ever saw or ever expect to see." (Lincoln, by David Herbert Donald, 1995)\n\nIn 1830, after more economic and land-title difficulties in Indiana, the family settled on government land on a site selected by Lincoln's father in Macon County, Illinois. The following winter was especially brutal, and the family nearly moved back to Indiana. When his father relocated the family to a nearby site the following year, the 22-year-old Lincoln struck out on his own, canoeing down the Sangamon to Sangamon County, Illinois, in the village of New Salem. Later that year, hired by New Salem businessman Denton Offutt and accompanied by friends, he took goods from New Salem to New Orleans via flatboat on the Sangamon, Illinois and Mississippi rivers. While in New Orleans, he may have witnessed a slave auction that left an indelible impression on him for the rest of his life. Whether he actually witnessed a slave auction at that time or not, living in a country with a considerable slave presence, he probably saw similar atrocities from time to time.\n\nHis formal education consisted of perhaps 18 months of schooling from unofficial teac
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According to the Democrat party someone called Johnson a Jackass, and he adopted the donkey (actually a Jackass) as his symbol. It stuck.
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I'm not so much answering your Q (thou it will address the Minority part) as suggesting "Olderandwiser" change their name.  It was the Dem. Congressmen who tried to block the Civil Rights Laws in the House & Senate.  Republicans introduced it and got it passed.  The term "Southern Democrat" was in reference to the old boys club that did everything in their power to prevent colored people from getting ahead in the 50s&60s.  \n\nThe KKK was the "terrorist" faction of the Democrat Party and the first black Congressman (1871) was a Republican (and former slave) Joseph Rainey, who served 5 terms before retiring.  \n\nBush's Cabinet is the most racially diverse in History - especially compared to Clinton's overwelmingly white male cabinet.
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Lincoln asked them to abolish slavery. The Southern Sates did not agree as that would mean losing their entire workforce which worked in their plantations and farms and were the source of their wealth and economy.\n\nFaced with no choice, the Southern States left, what followed was the Civil War.
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Interesting question.  Frankly, in his early career, Lincoln supported the rights of the states to secede from the Union.  Apparently he changed his position after attaining the presidency.  If I were to characterize his response, it would be this; He saved the Union at the expense of the Republic, and ushered in what many call the "imperial presidency", expanding the powers of the president over the legislature in regard to war making powers, etc..  You can argue day and night about the reasons for the War Between the States, but Lincoln eventually bought into the concept of the "perpetual Union", and he used the military to enforce it.
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hill billy you truely do not have a brain in your head now do you? why the calling names? that just shows how unintelligent you really are. oh but we all know that because you are a democrat!\noh and getaway i agree with you 110%.
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This isnt a bad question... ive wondered this too. The name is in reference to Abraham Lincolon who was the first republican president and supposedly born in a log cabin. Maybe "gay republicans" was too straight forward.
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History. It does repeat itself, and we have to learn from history or relive it. Do you not that Lincoln was extremely unpopular during the American Civil War? Democrats wanted him out so they could stop the killing. Death tolls that surpassed the amount of killed in Iraq in both wars, sometimes on a daily basis. Now he is called the greatest President in American history. If he had listened to the polls of the day, which stated that he was not only going to beaten in re-election but he was the most unpopular President ever at that time, America would be split into two countries now!
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See your already talking like them!  Yet you deny their support of your party??  What a laugh!\nBTW, it was a republican (Lincoln) who started the civil war to STOP oppression you troglodyte.
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I dunno. I have lived in the south for 38 years, being born and raised in central N.C., in a little town called Faith, N.C.. That little town was/is home to some of the nation's most powerful klansmen, and to this day has never had a single black resident. While it's true, they do have what some would consider conservative values, to call one a republican is a MAJOR insult. They are democrats. And proud of it. Go figure. I personally think it has a lot to do with the fact the Lincoln was a Republican, and they don't want to be associated with his political party. I'm constantly picked on my these old men, because I call them oxymorons. Only I'm smart enough to only do it in jest. I ain't going out of my way to offend anyone who can ghost my ass on a whim. But I remember at the age of 16, I had a broken antennae on my AMX, and one of the old guys told me my "ariel went republican on me". That's their way of thinking. When something is broken, it's gone republican.
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I wonder if they were all democrats!
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It wasn't Lincoln who coined this phrase. The first person to use the pharse was Aesop in his tale "The Four Oxen and the Lion" In this story the oxen would defend themselves against attacks from the lion by standing tail to tail in a circle so that the lion would meet only horns when attacking them. Eventually, the oxen got into a fight and separated. This left the lion a chance to atttack them all and eat them. The moral of the story was "united We stand, divided we fall" \n\nYes, abe Lincoln did use it later on and that perhaps is how it became popluar in America. Patrick henry also used this phrase in his last speech before his death in 1799. He was upset over the possible division of Virginia's house of Representatives.