... that the new territories be reserved predominantly for the free whites. Overall the Republicans played a role in the end of the Second Party System by attempting and successfully slowly suffocating the South's slavery institution. During the end of the Civil War, the North and specifically the Republicans in office had the large task of reconstructing the rebellious confederate states and re-building a new Republic ... too. "Freedom itself became a terrain of conflict, its substances open to different and sometimes contradictory interpretations, its content changing for whites as well a...

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