The government gave railroad companies large pieces of land
The most dangerous group in that time was Al-Qaeda
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Free soil party: he Free Soil Party was a short-lived political party in the United States active from 1848 to 1854, when it merged into the Republican Party. The party was largely focused on the single issue of opposing the expansion of slavery into the western territories of the United States.
whigs: The Whigs were a political faction and then a political party in the parliaments of England, Scotland, Great Britain, Ireland and the United Kingdom. Between the 1680s and 1850s, they contested power with their rivals, the Tories.
Democrats: The Democratic Party is one of the two major contemporary political parties in the United States, along with its main rival, the Republican Party. Tracing its heritage back to Thomas Jefferson and James Madison's Democratic-Republican Party, the modern-day Democratic Party was founded around 1828 by supporters of Andrew Jackson, making it the world's oldest active political party.
In North Africa, muslim influence at the time was quite established. This region of the world was under muslim influence almost since the start of the religion itself. For that reason, there were a lot of muslim characteristics in the culture of the tribes and civilizations that lived in that area.