Why did southern states become Confederate States?

Answer 1

AnswerThe confederates fought because they did not want to share their profits with the Union. The south was getting very powerful. Cotton was the main crop or the time. The North said they wanted a piece of the pie. The south said no. It was not all about slavery, though some was. The North was not very concerned with the factor as many text books say it is. Slavery also was not the main reason why the south broke away. So to answer your question the Confederates fought in the Civil War to protect and stake their rights, which are in the Constitution.

Answer 2

The Confederates were fighting in the Civil war to be free from the Union and be their own country. the most important reason they were fighting in the Civil War is because the North and South had many Dissagreements over the years.

Answer 3

Northern Industrialists owned the slave trade. Southern farmers purchased slaves because it was legal to do so. After this was done, the same northern industrialists grew a conscience and started the slavery abolishment movement. The northern industrialists had an underlaying reason for this. Their other industries could not compete with slave labor. They wanted the slaves freed, yet were not willing to refund the money they accepted for them. That war, as with any others, was not about slavery. It was about money. The Confederates did not necessarily want slaves. It was merely a legal option offered to them by northern based slave traders to develop agriculture in the south in the first place and hence feed the nation's anticipated growth. So within the slavery issue, matters are not exactly black and white there are many shades of gray. The Union was just as deplorable within issues of fraud.

Answer 4

the confederate states wanted to secede from the union on the principle of state's rights. slavery was only one of the underlying issues leading up to the secession.
The slave holding States that wanted to secede far outnumbered the slave States that wanted to remain loyal to the Union, or wanted to be neutral. These States, added to the Confederacy would have changed the course of the war to a very large extent. Nevertheless, the Confederacy believed that their way of life and economics which were heavily dependent on slavery was looking like a dim future if they remained with the Union.

The only recourse was separation and the hope that because of the European need of Southern cotton, they could be successful.

Answer 5

Tthe masters made a deal with the slaves that if they fought on the confederate side that the slave would b free ...if ur wonderin y since bein a confederate ment to fight for slvery well it. Was because the slave just wanted their own freedom and later if the confeds won the master coyld get another slave

Answer 6

They did not share the North's veiw of slavery and decided to separate from those states.

Answer 7

The question of slavery was the issue; those that joined the confederacy believed that with Abraham Lincoln in office, he would attempt to end slavery (which wasnt the case).

Answer 8

The only state I heard of to join the Union during the war was West Virginia (1863), which disapproved of Virginia's secession from the USA, and seceded from Virginia.

Answer 9

they felt the union was being unfair