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>
They killed goats and sacrificed there dead babies on them
No he's more or less a fictional character in a movie. There was a Thomas Gates who was a general but had nothing to do with the assassination.
It started in 1939 and ended in 1945