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Option (e) all of the above is correct. Electoral fraud, white supremacist violence, the panic of 1873, the growing weakness of grant's administration contributed to a weakening of republican control in the south.
Republicans Abraham Lincoln, Rutherford
B. Hayes, Chester A. Arthur, and Benjamin Harrison were all Whigs before transferring to the party from which they were elected, and they are regarded as the ideological forerunners of the Republican Party in the North.
The party's electoral success was boosted by the demise of the Whigs, which had once been one of the two major parties in the nation opposed the spread of slavery at the time of its founding while supporting classical liberalism and economic reform.
Northern Protestants, factory workers,
professionals, businesspeople, wealthy
farmers, and beginning in 1866, former
black slaves made up the Republican Party's original membership. When it first began, it had a relatively small presence in the South but by 1858, it had become a major force there. Electoral fraud, white supremacist violence, the panic of 1873, the growing weakness of grant's administration contributed to a weakening of republican control in the south.
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