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Southerners are so conservative because they are racists and wish things could back to the way there were in the past
Scalawags
A major area of disagreement between Abraham Lincoln and the Radical Republicans was that Lincoln wanted to forgive and reintegrate the South back into the Union as painlessly and smoothly as possible while restricting the rights of freed slaves, whereas the Radical Republicans wanted to punish the South as harshly as possible and grant full citizenship rights to freed slaves. After Lincoln's assassination, the Radical Republicans went on to pass a string of laws that would grant voting rights to freedmen, restrict any whites associated with the Confederacy from holding public office, create the South's first public school system, and provide charitable institutions like hospitals and asylums.
Thomas Jefferson
Lincoln was Republican so anti-Republican resentment was wide-spread throughout the post-war South.
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Republican
The Republican Party candidates in 1860 were Abraham Lincoln, William H. Seward, Simon Cameron, Salmon P. Chase, and Edward Bates. The Republican Party nominated Abraham Lincoln. When Lincoln won the presidency, South Carolina formally seceded from the Union.
Made Douglas unpopular in the South, which helped to split the Democratic party, so that the Republican presidential candidate (Lincoln) was bound to win.
He forced the south to stay loyal and forced the south to give up slavery.
Lincoln committed himself to reuniting the union at any cost. Although he was elected on the anti-slavery Republican ticket, Lincoln's main reason for going to war was not to stop slavery, but to restore the union. He didn't believe the southerners even had the legal right to secede.
As soon as the result of the Presidential election came in - with Lincoln as the first Republican president.
In the Summer of 1864, radical Republicans did not see the progress they expected from US President Lincoln's efforts to end the war and end slavery. Lincoln was a moderate Republican and to many of the radicals, he had been too soft on the South. This, in 1864, was an unfair charge against Lincoln. He and his generals were doing all that was possible to force the South into a surrender. Lincoln feared that the Republican Party would not nominate him as their candidate for the November 1864 presidential election.
The first states seceded when Abraham Lincoln was elected president. Officially, Abraham Lincoln believed that all new states admitted to the Union should be free states. Although Lincoln was viewed as a moderate in the North, he was considered an extremist in the South. Southerners feared that Lincoln would not allow slavery to continue at all, even though Lincoln did not espouse this as his official position. South Carolina was the first state to secede, declaring itself independent from the Union.
After Lincoln was assassinated, his plan for reconstruction was stopped and cancelled by the Radical Republican, who had the majority in the Congress.
Abraham Lincoln, first President of the newly-formed Republican Party. His refusal to allow any new slave-states drove the South to rebellion.