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It is basic economics: if slavery is outlawed, they lose their property (slaves) and their ability to make a living (growing crops). They also have to compete for jobs and goods with the freed slaves, and deal with the consequences of an impoverished lower class.
Of course, they could have just paid their ex-slaves a lower wage, which is what happened after Reconstruction.
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∙ 7y ago
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∙ 12y agothe southern states were unwilling to do away with slavery because they did not have the industrial base that the northern states had nor the manpower to get their goods to the markets and ports where they needed to go.
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∙ 11y agoSlavery in the south put most poor southerners out of work, for the little paid work around it drove the wages of those who did work down to subsistance level, it created a huge visible wealth gap with slave owners living a life of oppulent luxury, which must have generated bad feeling.
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What did the raid on harpers ferry convince southerners of?
Slavery should be abolished
Was the Civil War about more than just ending slavery?
One of the Civil War's causes is the fact that there are many sides that both wanted the country to develop by its design (Eg: the Northerners wanted the central bank to exist while the Southerners opposed it ). And about slavery, the Southerners wanted many slave states to increase the slave number so that their kind of economic which based much on labor force will be promoted while the Northers just wanted to develop the middle class to trade together so therfore rising their industrialized economic.
What is true of slavery in the US before the Civil War?
the north opposed the extension of slavery into new states
The Confederate War effort was hurt by southerners fierce devotion to?
State's rights
What was the name for pro slavery southerners?
A radical group of pro-slavery southerners were known as â??Fire-Eatersâ??. They were the politicians urging the southern states to become a separate nation. These individuals did much to weaken the fragility of the Union and made it their goal to create a separate Confederate nation.
Was favored by white southerners but opposed by northerns?
slavery
What was favored by white southerners but opposed northerners?
slavery
Why do you think southerners were opposed to the Wilmot Proviso?
slavery was outlawed.
Compare the arguments of northerners with southerners who opposed abolitionism?
they opposed the african american slavery
What main reason Southerners opposed the election of Abraham Lincoln was?
The main reason that Southerners opposed the election of Abraham Lincoln was his opposition to the expansion of slavery.
Why were southerners were opposed to the Wilmot Proviso?
The proviso would limit the spread of slavery- NoVaNeT :]
Why were the southerners opposed to the Wilmot Proviso?
The proviso would limit the spread of slavery- NoVaNeT :]
What were peoples opinions on ending slavery?
There were a number of different opinions on ending slavery. Many people supported this end to slavery and others were opposed.
The only group of white southerners who strongly opposed slavery and the slaveowners were?
Appalachian mountain whites
Why were southerners politicians opposed to the wilmot proviso?
The proviso would limit the spread of slavery- NoVaNeT :]
Why did john brown's raid fail to unite forces that opposed slavery?
Northerners and Southerners were not ready to resort to violence to abolish slavery
What statement best explains why john brown failed to unite forces that opposed slavery?
Northerners and Southerners were not ready to resort to violence to abolish slavery
