 Reacting off of current events, many playwrights wrote short comedies that dealt with the major issues of the day.For example, "Removing the Deposits" was a farce produced in 1835 at the Bowery in reaction to Andrew Jackson's battle with the banks and "Whigs and Democrats, or Love of No Politics" was a play that dealt with the struggle between America's two political parties.In 1852, Harriet Beecher Stowe published the anti-slavery novel "Uncle Tom's Cabin" and, without any strong copyright laws, was immediately dramatized on stages across the country.