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Copperhead

In US history, a term of abuse applied by people of the Northern states during the Civil War to fellow Northerners who opposed the Union government's war policy. Many opposed the policy because they did not believe it possible to conquer the Confederacy. In the later years of the conflict, the term was largely applied to Northern Democrats.Many were southern sympathizers.

The term implies a comparison with the copperhead snake.



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