Copperheadism

[kop-er-hed-iz-uhm]

noun

U.S. History. (during the Civil War) the advocacy of peace negotiations to restore the Union to its prewar condition, with continued slavery in the South.

Origin:
1860–65, Americanism; copperhead + -ism

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