WESTWARD EXPANSION INDUSTRIALIZATION URBANIZATION 1870 1900
GILDED AGE POLITICS
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Question
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In the three decades following the Civil War, the policies of the Republican Party generally favored ____
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southern agricultural interests
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the interests of laborers
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women suffrage
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northern industrial interests
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Explanation:
Detailed explanation-1: -The party opposed the expansion of slavery before 1861 and led the fight to destroy the Confederate States of America (1861–1865).
Detailed explanation-2: -Ideology. The Democratic-Republican Party saw itself as a champion of republicanism and denounced the Federalists as supporters of monarchy and aristocracy. Ralph Brown writes that the party was marked by a “commitment to broad principles of personal liberty, social mobility, and westward expansion."
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