Why did southerners want in the civil war?

Fightinkid107 ∙

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∙ 15y ago

Updated: 8/18/2019

Ostensibly their motive was to protect state sovereignty from federal intrusion. Many were motivated by purely selfish reasons, eg, maintaining their right to own slaves, though slave owners were a small (though powerful) minority of Southerners.

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Was the first shot in the civil war was fired by northerners or southerners?

southerners

Why were northerners and southerners willing to fight in the civil war?

because they want the people enslaved in the south to be free...

What did they farm in the South during the civil war?

The Southerners farmed COTTON, the Civil War.

Southerners ate in the civil war?

The southerners had to change their diets during the Civil War. They ate potatoes, bread, salted pork, peas, and apples.

Why did many southerners not want to give equal rights to African Americans after the civil war?

they felt the were less then them, animals

Why were northerners called southerners rebels in the civil war?

because they are not southerners they keep away from them

Southerners name during the civil war?

The Confederacy

Did most southerners own slavesw before the civil war the war?

Yes. That was what the war was about. Preceding the war, southerners had slaves and the northerners didn't think it was right. Therefore, the Civil War happened. Hope this helped! Mckennaj

Who were the southerners that wanted to withdraw from the civil war called?

Separatist

Who opposed union in the civil war?

The Confederacy....

What were southerners called who voted republican after the civil war?

Radicals

How many southerners did not own slaves?

Fully 3/4 of southerners did not own slaves at the eve of the Civil War.