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The Civil War precursor to the Winchester repeating rifle based on early lever-action repeating rifles made by New Haven Arms Company Co. These highly prized weapons were privately purchased by those who could afford them. Jenks M1841 Mule ear carbine: All of these carbines were manufactured for the Navy and the U.S. Revenue Cutter Service.
Using racially charged rhetoric, Copperheads sought to unite opposition to the Radical Republicans. This had become a national phenomenon during the American Civil War. Democrat sympathizers were battling to keep their country from becoming, in their eyes, too radical.
Emancipation and Equal Rights: Politics and Constitutionalism in the Civil War Era. Belz, Herman (2000). A New Birth of Freedom: The Republican Party and Freedman's Rights, 1861–1866. Benedict, Michael Les (1999). The Impeachment and Trial of Andrew Johnson. Blackburn, George M. (April 1969). "Radical Republican Motivation: A Case History".
The Republican Party, and by extension the Radical Republican Faction, is formed. 1860: Republican Abolitionist Abraham Lincoln wins the Presidential Election, serving as the catalyst for the civil war. 1864: The Radical Democracy Party forms to oppose Lincoln in the 1864 election, but later drops out due to not wanting to act as a spoiler ...
Articles relating to the Radical Republicans, a faction of American politicians within the Republican Party from the founding of the Republican Party in 1854 (before the American Civil War) until the end of Reconstruction in the Compromise of 1877.
Former New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie, who suspended his campaign on Wednesday, referenced the Civil War with a word of caution to Republican voters. Benjamin Franklin, Christie recalled, said ...
Republican support was primarily from recently freed slaves. Reports vary as to alleged black militias drilling into the streets with bayonets fixed, threatening anyone who cast a vote against the Republicans. In addition, leaders of the Union League were influential to many African-American Republicans.
A leading opponent of slavery, Julian was the Free Soil Party's candidate for vice president in the 1852 election and was a prominent Radical Republican during the American Civil War and the Reconstruction era. In 1885, President Grover Cleveland appointed him surveyor general of the New Mexico Territory.