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☆☆☆☆☆The Whigs and Democrats avoided and evaded the issue of slavery in the election of 1848 by splitting down the middle on who was for and who was against slavery. Whigs and Democrats in the South wanted to keep slavery. Whigs and Democrats in the North wanted to abolish slavery.
Slaves and farmers who asked landowners for land to work would be the least benefit since they would get, usually, indebted to that person.
Southern democrats appealed to small farmers after the Civil War because they wanted to get the farmers to see that building roads would end in higher taxes. They also wanted to get the farmers to see that the higher taxes would happen if schools were to be built.
One way in which Southern Democrats appealed to small farmers was by arguing that the construction of new roads led to higher taxes. They made the same argument in terms of building new schools.
they worked to put white southerners back into power
Congressional Democrats
The Wade-Davis Bill required that a majority of prewar southern voters swear loyalty to the Union.
He couldn't declare war, because that would mean recognising the Confederacy as a sovereign nation.
So he called for volunteer troops - and the other side was in no doubt what they were meant for.
General Lee won the war in a funny way. He put steeping stones to keep his troops out of Richmond.
