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Throughout its history, Tennessee has been a moderate state, focusing on the Antebellum Period, including the political party system (describe the basic beliefs of each) in Tennessee, the geographical divisions (describe them), and economic divisions (describe them) explain why? Explain why Tennessean took so long to secede the Union and join confederacy.

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Throughout its history, Tennessee has been a moderate state, focusing on the Antebellum Period, including the political party system (describes the basic beliefs of each) in Tennessee, the geographical divisions (describes them), and economic divisions (describes them) and explains why. It also explains why Tennessean took so long to secede the Union and join confederacy. References are included.

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1. THROUGHOUT ITS HISTORY, TENNESSEE HAS BEEN A MODERATE STATE. FOCUSING ON THE ANTEBELLUM PERIOD, INCLUDING THE POLITICAL PARTY SYSTEM (DESCRIBE THE BASIC BELIEFS OF EACH) IN TENNESSEE,
By 1836 both Whigs and Democrats were fully organized, and for the next decade and a half the two parties fiercely competed for national, state, and local offices. Until 1852 Whigs won the majority of national and state elections, but the two parties were remarkably well matched. The breakup of the national Whig Party in the early 1850s shifted the advantage to the Democrats, but throughout the rest of the decade Whigs, sometimes under the guise of other parties such as the Know-Nothings, continued to compete effectively for office. The term "Democrat" was first used in the 1830s, about the time the opposition Whig party was formed by Henry Clay, who had been a devoted Jeffersonian.
The Democratis Party resembled the previous Republican party especially in terms of a Jeffersonian anti-elite rhetoric of opposition to "aristocracy," distrust of banks (and paper money), and faith in "the people". http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_the_United_States_Democratic_Party According to Fisher (1997), it favored limited government, the restriction of business privileges, and the protection of the common people from economic exploitation. Andrew Johnson was the leader of the East Tennessee Democrats. http://uncpress.unc.edu/chapters/fisher_war.html
The Whig Party was a political party of the United States during the era of Jacksonian democracy. The party was formed to oppose the policies of President Andrew Jackson and the Democratic Party. In particular, the Whigs supported the supremacy of Congress over the Executive Branch and favored a program of modernization and economic development. Their name was chosen to echo the American Whigs of the 1770s who fought for independence. The Whig Party counted among its members such national political luminaries as Daniel Webster, William Henry Harrison, and their pre-eminent leader, Henry Clay of Kentucky. In addition to Harrison, the Whig Party also counted 4 war heroes among its ranks, including Generals Zachary Taylor and Winfield Scott. Its Illinois leader was Abraham Lincoln. The party was ultimately destroyed by the question of whether to allow the expansion of slavery to the territories. Deep fissures in the party on this question led the party to run Winfield Scott over its own incumbent President Fillmore in the U.S. presidential election of 1852. The Whig Party never elected another President. Its leaders quit politics (as Lincoln did temporarily) or changed parties. The voter base defected to the nativist Know-Nothing Party, Republican Party, various coalition parties in some states, and even to the Democrats. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Whig_Party
The Republican Party was re-established in 1854 by a coalition of former Whigs, Northern Democrats, and Free-Soilers who opposed the expansion of slavery and held a vision for modernizing the United States. The new party was created as an act of defiance against what activists denounced as the Slave Power -the powerful class of slaveholders who were conspiring to control the federal government and to spread slavery nationwide. The party founders adopted the name "Republican," echoing the 1776 Republicanism in the United States values of civic virtue and opposition to aristocracy and corruption. And, it harkened back ...

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