American Studies 2200E Chapter Notes - Chapter Week 8: Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr., Richard Hofstadter, Civil Rights Act Of 1964
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Andrew prokop, how republicans went from the party of lincoln to the party of trump, in 13. Went from a party that was racially progressive for its times, to one that gets little support from nonwhite voters. Went from a northern-only party to one that dominates in the south. From anti-slavery party to pro-business party: the republican party was founded to oppose the slave power. Northerners feared the slave power (the south) would dominate us politics, institution of slavery wherever they could. Whig party collapsed on the issue of whether kansas and nebraska should be slave or free. Lincoln promised he would not interfere where slavery already existed. 1861 11 states seceded from the union, northerners would not stand for this: the civil war drives republicans to end slavery. At first wanted to restore the union, not free slaves. Emancipation proclamation 1863 announced all slaves would be free.