Why did abraham lincoln react to the copperheads by suspending the right of habeas corpus

he wanted to jail people who opposed his policies

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populist movement, in u.s. history, politically oriented coalition of agrarian reformers in the middle west and south that advocated a wide range of economic and political legislation in the late 19th century. thus in 1892 their leaders organized the populist, or people's, party, and the farmers' alliances melted away.