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What was the white Northerners fighting for when the civil war started?
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Were all northerners white during the American civil wars?
The answer here is clearly no. Black Americans were in the Northern States and or 13 British Colonies in both conflicts.
Is it true that Scalawags were white Southerners and Carpetbaggers were white Northerners who played major roles in the South?
carpetbagger- northerners who moved to the south and the south hated them beacuse they were like kicking them out scalawag- southern whites who supported the reconstrution Era
What was created to provide assistance to black and white southerners uprooted by the fighting of the Civil War?
Freedman's Bureau
Why did the north prohibit african americans from fighting the civil war?
In the beginning, because the white troops would not have accepted them as comrades. (Remember that most Northerners were not Abolitionists - far from it.) In due course, a lot of the junior white soldiers began to see how black recruitment into the ranks could move them (the whites) up the pecking-order, and so gradually the idea of black troops became accepted.
What was favored by white southerners but opposed northerners?
slavery
What was the black population in the south in the civil war?
About 3.5 million slaves and about another 500,000 free blacks. The total southern population was 9 million, so that left five million white southerners to fight the 21 million white northerners.
What happened to women if they were discovered fighting in the civil war?
the women would go to jail or end up being slaves for white people
Why was d ray white killed?
D. Ray White was a civil rights activist in Mississippi who was murdered in 1966. His killing was believed to be racially motivated due to his activism in fighting for the rights of African Americans during the Civil Rights Movement. His murder remains unsolved.
What were northerners called who objected to slavery's impact on free white workers?
Free Soilers
What did the confedarate soldiers think they were fighting for during the civil war?
Confederate soldiers thought that they were fighting for the sovereignty of the Confederacy, and the right of white southerners to make their own choices and run their own lives (and the lives of their black slaves).
What were the challenges posed to white Southerners white Northerners and African Americans by the outcome of the Dred Scott Decision?
White Southerners were delighted - it meant that slavery was legal in every state of the Union. Those white Northerners who were Abolitionists were horrified, on account of the same verdict. Other white Northerners were simply alarmed that it was driving the two sides further apart, and bringing war closer. African-Americans were, of course, not being consulted much. Some of them may have wondered why Scott did not claim his freedom earlier, when it would have been granted automatically.
What changes took place as a result of Dr King's work as a civil rights leader?
the white and black people started to be friends and be together
