Lincoln helped America through the civil war, he signed the Emancipation Proclamation to end slavery, he tried to keep the country together. Keeping America together is so important because if sectionalism continues the U.S. may split apart. Our country would not be united, but separated.
Southern populism originated in the idea that the Democrats didn't do anything useful for the south after the civil war and that the people were living dreadfully. The populists decided to no longer support them and to fight for their lives and their farms instead of just supporting democrats who were old civil war veterans who didn't really care about the people in the South.
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