I believe that group was the Nativist
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>
A third group of Democrats formed the Constitutional Union Party and selected John Bell as their presidential candidate. Because the Democratic vote was spread so thin, Republican Abraham Lincoln defeated Douglas, Breckenridge, and Bell in the 1860 presidential election.
The tsars were Russian Orthodox
