Southern democrats appealed<span> to </span>small farmers<span> after the Civil War because they wanted to get the </span>farmers<span> to see that building roads would end in higher taxes. They also wanted to get the </span>farmers<span> to see that the higher taxes would happen if schools were to be built.</span>
John Ross, a Cherokee Chief, Lithographic & Print Colouring Establishment, copyright 1843. The Indian Removal Act was signed into law by President Andrew Jackson on May 28, 1830, authorizing the president to grant unsettled lands west of the Mississippi in exchange for Indian lands within existing state borders.
Northerners believed that abolition was the way to go because they thought people should not be treated like property and toil like slaves. All people were equal in their eyes, so they decided to treat people like that, especially Quakers and abolitionists.
Southerners, while there may have some abolition supporters (possibly), thought differently. They believed abolitionists were trying to take their sources of hard labor in the South: slaves. Southern slave masters wanted slaves to work for almost no pay and do the work they didn't want to do, so aboiliton was NOT something they really liked...
Food shortages, loss of income,
