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They were for slavery.

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Were the federalists the north or the south?

The Federalists were the North. The Confederates were the South. Federalists were against slavery and the Confederates were for slavery. Confederates is against the federalists, or opposite the federalists. CONfederalists.


What is a confederates mean in the Civil War?

The Confederates were against slavery in the civil war. They did not want it.


Who were the people that won the Civil War?

the two parts in the civil war were the union(north, against slavery) and the confederates (south, supporting slavery) and the union won after the confederates surrendered!


What would happen if the confederates on the civil war?

lets takes this step by step. 1. union (USA) was against slavery and confederates was for slavery 2. the choose to be two countries 3.if they won then we would have slavery and still be in two contries


Why did Lincoln support the ending of slavery?

Because the British were threatening to support the Confederates, and by turning the war into an official crusade against slavery, Lincoln made it impossible for the British to do this without looking pro-slavery.


Why is it a misconception that all the North were against slavery?

Because the war was not about slavery - until Lincoln decided to turn it into a moral crusade, in order to keep the British from helping the Confederates. If most Northerners had been against slavery, there would not have had to be a dedicated 'Abolitionist lobby'.


What did confederates belief in?

Continuing slavery.


What do state mean?

States in the south that fought with the north during the Civil War. The Confederates wanted slavery, but the Union, or the North, was against it.


What do confederate states mean?

States in the south that fought with the north during the Civil War. The Confederates wanted slavery, but the Union, or the North, was against it.


Who were the people that favored slavery?

The confederates (the southerners)


Why did the confederates states secede from the union?

Because of slavery causes and dissagreements between the union and the confederates


Why did Abraham Lincoln agree to use war for an answer to get rid of slavery?

He didn't use the war to get rid of slavery. He turned it into a war against slavery in order to keep the British from supporting the Confederates, which at that time could have meant Lincoln losing the war.