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The Democrats fought bitterly at times over?

Whether to continue the war. The anti-war Democrats were called Copperheads. or depending on the question, it was over slavery,tarrifs,and banking policies


The fatal split in the whig party in 1852 occured over?

The 1852 Whig Party National Convention was bitterly divided - following the Compromise of 1850 and the failure of secession in 1850-51. 1852 would prove to be the final year that the Whig Party would put a candidate up for the position of President, and the party would soon cease to exist.


Who tended to resist the efforts of the temperance movement?

American Catholics proved hostile to the reform impulse. Catholics understood freedom in ways quite different from Protestant reformers. They viewed sin as an inescapable burden of individuals and society. The perfectionist idea that evil could be banished from the world struck them as an affront to genuine religion, and they bitterly opposed what they saw as reformers' efforts to impose their own version of Protestant morality on their neighbors.


What would life be like if lee did not surrender?

If Robert E. Lee did not surrender, it would only have been a matter of time before the entire South was lost to war. The South had already lost too many men and had too many hardships to win the Civil War.


What did John Marshall do when the Virginia planters that refused to pay their debts to English merchants?

That John Marshall should have come out of Virginia is perhaps the most ironical fact in the political history of the Old Dominion. Quite unrepresentative of the dominant planter group that had gone over to Jefferson, bitterly hostile to the agrarian interests that spoke through John Taylor, he was the leader of a small remnant of Virginians who followed Washington through the fierce extremes of party conflict. He was the last and ablest representative of the older middle-class Virginia, given to speculation and intent on money-making, that was being superseded by a cavalier Virginia concerned about quite other things than financial interests. He belonged rather to Boston than to Richmond. His intense prejudices were primarily property prejudices. He was the Fisher Ames of the South, embodying every principle of the dogmatic tie-wig school of New England Federalists. Profoundly influenced by Hamilton and Robert Morris, he seems to have found the Boston group more congenial in temper and outlook. The explanation of his strong property-consciousness is to be discovered both in his material ambitions and his professional interests. He was a business man rather than a planter. He was heavily involved in land speculation and held stock in numerous corporations launched to exploit the resources of the state