Political party consisting of southerners and westerners who were committed to agriculture

The political party that consist of southerners and westerners who were committed to agriculture is the Republican Party, they are engage in anti-slavery and free the soil democrats. The Republican Party went well beyond the issue of slavery in the territories. It conceptualized to improve the United States - insisting to give free western land to farmers and against to let slave owners buy up the best lands, enlarge banking, more railroads and factories.