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The main motive of the Civil War in the United States was the conflict over slavery. The Southern states wanted to preserve and expand the institution of slavery, while the Northern states opposed it and sought to abolish it. This disagreement over slavery ultimately led to the secession of the Southern states and the outbreak of the Civil War.
Cotton production could not have been done profitably without slavery.
The "Peculiar Institution" was and remains a common euphemism for slavery in the U.S. southern slave states. People to this day will speak of "the South's Peculiar Institution" as a way of referring to slavery without actually using the word "slavery."
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The states south of Pennsylvania clung to the institution of slavery because it was the mainstay of the cotton industry - their only major export.
First of all their was not a relationship.... it was an institution. The feeling about this institution was both mixed and accepted. It probably was accepted because the Christian world did not speak out openly against it. And during this period of our American history, it was not clearly understood about the negative aspects, that was to come out of slavery. Slavery and the issues that it brought up were huge....... When something is institutionalized, it becomes a part of you. And slavery became a large part of the American foundation from the South to the North.
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The main motive of the Civil War in the United States was the conflict over slavery. The Southern states wanted to preserve and expand the institution of slavery, while the Northern states opposed it and sought to abolish it. This disagreement over slavery ultimately led to the secession of the Southern states and the outbreak of the Civil War.
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Cotton production could not have been done profitably without slavery.
The "Peculiar Institution" was and remains a common euphemism for slavery in the U.S. southern slave states. People to this day will speak of "the South's Peculiar Institution" as a way of referring to slavery without actually using the word "slavery."
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There is no slavery today therefore there is no present relationship with the past.
The "Peculiar Institution" was and remains a common euphemism for slavery in the U.S. southern slave states. People to this day will speak of "the South's Peculiar Institution" as a way of referring to slavery without actually using the word "slavery."
The Supreme Court's decision in the Dred Scott case in 1857 ruled that enslaved individuals were not considered citizens and could not sue in federal court, and also declared that the Missouri Compromise was unconstitutional. This decision further entrenched the institution of slavery by denying enslaved individuals legal rights and protections, and inflamed tensions between pro-slavery and anti-slavery factions, ultimately contributing to the outbreak of the Civil War.
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