The Peace Democrats wanted to end the Civil War as well as the draft. They sympathized with the South.
The Peace Democrats, later called the Copperheads. The leader was Clement L. Vallandigham.
copperheads were Northern supporters of the Confederacy
The majority of the democrats were on the side of the confederates during the Civil War. Abraham Lincoln was actually a republican. Believe it or not!!!
The South were the Democrats of the Civil War. As odd as it seems, because now the South is mainly Republican, General Nathan Bedford Forrest, founder of the Ku Klux Klan was a democrat. Abraham Lincoln, Winner of the 1860 election, and a Republican was one of the causes of the war, because he wanted to free the slaves, and democrats wanted to keep slaves, as it was the South's largest enterprise.
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copperheads
The Peace Democrats, later called the Copperheads. The leader was Clement L. Vallandigham.
The Republicans called the Peace Democrats "Copperheads" because they were comparing them to venomous snakes.
These members of the Democratic Party who were opposed to the war. They preferred a negotiated peace with the Confederacy. The are also known as 'copperheads'.
Copperheads were Northerners who did not want to go to Civil War. Rather, they wanted peace and to try and find a compromise with the South.
Northern democrats who advocated peace in the south
Peace Democrats but there enemies called them copperheads
The Peace Democrats felt that the southern sates could be coaxed back into the Union by diplomatic means, or, failing that, that they should be allowed to secede peacefully.
Democrats who opposed the American Civil War and sought a negotiated peace with the Confederate States. They were called "Copperheads" because copper was seen as a symbol of treachery. The Copperheads were mainly concentrated in the Midwest and had significant political influence during the war.
Northerners who were sympathetic to the South during the American Civil War were sometimes called "Copperheads" or "Peace Democrats." They opposed the war and supported a negotiated peace settlement with the Confederacy.
Anti-war Democrats