Indentured Servants. These were people who worked for a certain number of years to pay for their voyage to America.
The southerners favored slavery but Lincoln was against it.
By Marcus Hawkins
Updated March 17, 2019
Quite often, those on the left of the political spectrum dismiss political conservative ideology as the product of religious fervor.
At first blush, this makes sense. After all, the conservative movement is populated by people of faith. Christians, Evangelicals, and Catholics tend to embrace the key aspects of conservatism, which include limited government, fiscal discipline, free enterprise, a strong national defense, and traditional family values. This is why many conservative Christians side with Republicanism politically. The Republican Party is most associated with championing these conservative values.
In 1862, Congress passed the Pacific Railway Act, which authorized the construction of a transcontinental railroad The first such railroad was completed on May 10, 1869 Four of the five transcontinental railroads were built with assistance from the federal government through land grants.
