During the time period just before the civil war, do you think southern politicians concentrated more on influencing the house or senate

No, southern politician didn't concentrate more on influencing the house or the senate

Explanation:

Before the civil war, the southern politician just like the "The platform" were more interested in secession than influencing the house or the senate. in fact as soon as the war began, South Carolina senator became the first senator to support the confederacy.

there are a number of different ideologies that come into conflict with regard to immigrants and immigration to the us.

i believe the answer is:

-   william jennings bryan is a democrat while mckinley was a republican

at that time, the segment of population that choose for democratic party were the voters with low economic background and vice versa

- william jennings has support of populists and wants to have inflation to farmers while mckinley has support of bankers and businessmen , doesn't want inflation

the fixed value of gold make the large business able to stack up their gold without   being worried that it would devaluated.

- william jennings supported the silver standard while mckinley supported the gold standard

according to jenning, using other metal beside gold could the poor people to have more purchasing power and them advance in the society.