Copperhead Democrats

Examples of Copperhead Democrats in the following topics:

• Union Politics

  • Lincoln faced strong opposition from Copperhead Democrats, who demanded an immediate peace settlement with the Confederacy.
  • The Proclamation was also immediately denounced by Copperhead Democrats, a more extreme wing of the Northern Democratic faction of the Democratic Party that opposed the war and hoped to restore the Union peacefully via federal acceptance of the institution of slavery.
  • Additionally, these Democrats viewed the Proclamation as an unconstitutional abuse of Presidential power.
  • Controversy surrounding the Emancipation Proclamation, as well as military defeats suffered by the Union, caused many moderate Democrats to abandon Lincoln and join the more extreme Copperheads in the 1862 elections.
  • The Copperhead Democrats strongly opposed emancipation and pressured Lincoln to make peace with the Confederacy.

• Conclusion: Reasons for Union Victory

  • During that year, Lincoln defeated George McClellan to secure reelection in the presidential election, signaling approval and support from Republicans, War Democrats, border states, and newly emancipated slaves.
  • That, combined with the stated neutrality of Britain and France, all but silenced opposing perspectives from Democrats and Copperheads in the North, reducing overall Northern political support for the Confederate cause.

• The Aftermath of the War

  • At that point, Lincoln had succeeded in getting the support of the border states, War Democrats, emancipated slaves, Britain, and France.
  • By defeating the Democrats and McClellan, he also defeated the Copperheads and their peace platform.

• Politics in the Gilded Age

  • Gilded Age politics were characterized by intense competition between Republicans and Democrats and much demographic change.
  • In 1884, the Democrats won their first national victory since 1856 with the election of Democrat Grover Cleveland to the presidency.
  • Neither Democrats nor Republicans were willing to take strong stands on issues important to the voters.
  • "Rebellion" referred to the Democrats of the Confederacy, who had tried to break the Union in 1861, as well as to their northern allies, called "Copperheads."
  • Demographic trends boosted the Democrats' totals, as the German and Irish Catholic immigrants had become Democrats and outnumbered the English and Scandinavian Republicans.

• Carpetbaggers and Scalawags

  • In most cases, the carpetbaggers won out, and many scalawags moved into the conservative or Democratic opposition.
  • A carpetbagger should not be confused with a "copperhead," a term given to Northerners who sympathized with the cause of Southern secession.
  • Scalawags were denounced as corrupt by Democrats.
  • The Democrats alleged that the scalawags were 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.

• Clinton's Promise of Change

  • Bill Clinton epitomized the New Democrat ideology with his focus on improving the economy and economic deregulation.
  • Bill Clinton was the single Democratic politician of the 1990s most identified with the New Democrats.
  • New Democrat and Third Way successes under Clinton, as well as the writings of Anthony Giddens, are often regarded to have inspired Tony Blair in the United Kingdom and his policies.
  • The New Democrats were more open to deregulation than the previous Democratic leadership had been.
  • The New Democrats and allies on the Democratic Leadership Conference were responsible for the ratification of the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA).

• The "Reign of Witches"

  • The "Reign of Witches" was a descriptive catchphrase used by Democratic-Republicans to criticize the Federalist Alien and Sedition Acts.
  • "The Reign of Witches" is a termed used by Democrat-Republicans to describe the Federalist party and John Adams after the passage of the Alien and Sedition Acts.
  • This legislation, Jeffersonian democrats argued, proved that Federalists were intent on establishing a tyrannical, aristocratic government and would silence the opposition through political persecution.
  • They were signed into law by President John Adams and were intended as a direct political attack on the Democrat-Republicans.
  • The Federalist-dominated Congress believed that Democrat-Republicans, fueled by the French and French-sympathizing immigrants, posed a subversive threat to the United States.

• Jackson and the Democratic Party

  • The modern Democratic Party arose in the 1830s out of factions from the largely disbanded Democratic-Republican Party.
  • The modern Democratic Party was formed in the 1830s from former factions of the Democratic-Republican Party, which had largely collapsed by 1824.
  • Both Democrats and Whigs were divided on the issue of slavery.
  • The Democrats later got the presidency back in 1844 with James K.
  • Describe the key moments in the development of the Democratic Party

• The People's Party and the Election of 1896

  • Some people—mostly Democrats—joined the far-left Populist Party.
  • Teller; he was immediately seen as a possible candidate for the Democratic nomination.
  • The 1896 Democratic convention opened at the Chicago Coliseum on July 7, 1896.
  • Silver forces were supported by the Democratic National Bimetallic Committee, the umbrella group formed in 1895 to support silver Democrats in their insurgency against Cleveland.
  • 1896 Democratic Convention where Bryan delivered his famous "Cross of Gold" speech.

• Whigs and Democrats

  • 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.
  • The result of this sharp sectional split within the Democratic Party was that Democrats were unable to mobilize an effective, united political platform in order to prevent the Republicans from achieving a majority in the electoral college.
  • President Andrew Jackson was hailed as the founder of the Democratic Party.
  • Examine the points of contention within the Whig and Democratic Parties