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Most southerners saw slavery as an economic necessity. Slaves worked large plantations all throughout the south. These plantations depended on this cheap/free labor to keep overhead costs down.
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Who were the southerns in the civil war?
The people who were for slavery.
What did the southerns goal the hoped to achieve by fighting the civil war?
To preserve slavery and have their own nation where slavery would exist.
Were the Southern colonies friendly?
No. The southerns were the ones who started slavery where as the north prohibited it. The southern started slavery especially around the Civil War.
What effect did Nat Turners rebellion have on southerns and their opinion of freedom for African Americans?
to end slavery
What was one of the arguments used by southerns slave holders to justify the institution of slavery?
It was critical for Southampton agriculture economy
Why were many Southerns upset with Northern Abolitionists?
Because they were trying to take away slavery. Southerners needed slaves their plantations.
Why did many black southerns move away from the south?
Probably to get away from slavery, as there was lots of black slaves in the south.
Why did southerns states seceded?
Because pro-slavery feelings were stronger in the Deep South. In the Upper South, there was less enthusiasm for secession.
Why did some southern states decided to leave the union?
Abraham Licoln won the election and the Southerns did not like Abraham Lincoln beacause he didn't like slavery and he wante dto end slavery.The southerns needed slave but he felt that it was wrong and unfair.
How did southerns see the Confederacy?
As a seperate nation entitled to all the rights of a nation.
Why did admission of California alarm southerns?
California became a state in 1850 in the middle of the slavery discussion and it came in free. This changed the balance of power in Congress.
How do southerns feel knowing their ancestors went to war to keep a race of people in slavery?
most southerns will go to their graves believing it was all about state rights and taxes. if only they would read the declaration of sessesion and the fugitive slave act they could die knowing the TRUTH.
