These explanations "make people feel safer and the
world more comprehensible".
The just-world hypothesis otherwise
called just world fallacy is the cognitive inclination or supposition that a
man's activities are innately disposed to convey ethically reasonable and
fitting results to that individual, to the finish of every honorable activity
being in the end compensated and every insidious activity inevitably rebuffed.
Both situations were similar because they were new people having to adjust to a new land and they also both dealt with the settlers who already lived there the Indians. Hope this helps you!
Northerner and Southern people easily accepted the terms of the Compromise of 1850 by putting their suspicions to rest once the Compromise had been passed.