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During the Civil War, Northern Democrats divided into two factions: the War Democrats, who supported the military policies of Republican President Lincoln; and the Copperheads, who strongly opposed them. In the South party politics ended in the Confederacy. The political leadership, mindful of the fierce divisions in antebellum American ...
The history of Westville is connected to Lt. Col. John Word West, a history professor at North Georgia College in Dahlonega.West was born in 1876 at a critical time of change in Georgia due to dramatic economic and social changes caused by the recent American Civil War (1861–65).
Southern Museum of Civil War and Locomotive History: Kennesaw: Cobb: Metro Atlanta: Multiple: Railroad and Civil War artifacts, formerly the Kennesaw Civil War Museum St. Marys Submarine Museum: St. Marys: Camden: Colonial Coast: Maritime: information, American submarine history St. Simons Island Light: St. Simons Island: Glynn: Colonial Coast ...
The passage of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 was a significant event in converting the Deep South to the Republican Party; in that year most Senatorial Republicans supported the Act (most of the opposition came from Southern Democrats). From the end of the Civil War to 1961 Democrats had solid control over the southern states on the national ...
A Respectable Minority: The Democratic Party in the Civil War Era, 1860–1868 (1977) online edition Archived 2012-05-25 at the Wayback Machine. Stampp, Kenneth M. Indiana Politics during the Civil War (1949) online edition Archived 2012-05-25 at the Wayback Machine. Smith, Adam. No Party Now: Politics in the Civil War North (2006), excerpt and ...
Georgia and state rights: A study of the political history of Georgia from the Revolution to the Civil War, with particular regard to federal relations. Washington, Government Printing Office. Holt, Michael F. (1999). The Rise and Fall of the American Whig Party: Jacksonian Politics and the Onset of the Civil War. Oxford University Press.
Ray Richey of the Texas Civil War Museum stands with a coat worn by Gen. Ulysses S. Grant on Wednesday, January 30, 2013. The coat and some swords are being added to the collection.
Discount Tire Company was founded by Bruce Halle as a tire shop in 1960, in Ann Arbor, Michigan. Halle had taken out a $400 loan to open the store, originally having six tires from a previous failed automotive supply company. In 1970, the company expanded to Arizona, with its headquarters being built in Scottsdale, Arizona. The company grew to ...