Answer:
-supported small farmers
-supported increased power for the states
Step-by-step explanation:
- Gave more power to states since it allowed for popular sovereignty (state chooses to be a slave or free state) instead of the federal government deciding.
- It supported small farmers because new land meant more open areas to farm. Since lands in the south were mostly owned by wealthy plantation owners, opening up new areas for farming gave average citizens land to farm on.
-Supporters would be pro-slavery, since this act would expand slavery into areas where it previously wasn't allowed.
-This act gave more power to the sates, so supporters would not have believed that the act, "gave the states too much power."