Most people did not like Christians because they refused to worship the gods and did not participate in sacrifices even though it was expected from them at that time.
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Andrew Carnegie wrote the gospel of wealth in 1889 in which he argued that wealthy men had a responsibility to use their wealth for the greater good of the society. He believed in laissez-faire economics rewarded those willing to take risks but with success comes great responsibility. <em>According to him Social Darwinism was not about the survival of fittest but about the fittest one of the society should help others to survive.</em>
The orders were to take everything that they can, and burn and ruin everything that they can't take. The idea was to destroy infrastructure completely so as to weaken the southern population and the southern support for the war. They would burn farms and pillage everything leaving nothing standing.
The presidential election of 1828 was a landslide victory for Andrew Jackson. It was actually much closer than most Presidential Elections have historically win because Jackson received 56% of the vote while Adams received 43%, but the United States of course elected President with the Electoral College. The Electoral College vote was: 178 Electoral College votes for Jackson, 83 Electoral College votes for Adams. I suppose I would consider that a bit of a landslide victory.
Where are the territories you are talking about?