Lincoln Douglas made a point of telling how horrible slavery was in regard to the fact that he was not allowed to have any leisure time, he was often beaten, and was denied access to an education for some time.
The great depression resulted in a nation wide decrease in food, money and work. This affected peoples ability to pay taxes. Without the government getting money from the people there was no trade happening between the USA and other countries and that resulted in other countries losing essential products and harming them.
The ku klux klan rose up and started killing minorities and spreading terror within the southern and "south"-northern states
