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it was mainly because of the splitting of the country.

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Q: Why did the union and confederate states fight?
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Why was the North American Union formed?

to fight against confederate states


What did southerner call northerners who went to fight the south?

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Were the southern states confederate or union?

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Why did the union states in the Civil War fight in the Civil War?

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What is the union and confederate?

The Union is a group of states that disagree with slaves and the Confederate is a group of states that believe in slaves.


Did the Union or Confederate fight at manassas?

Union fought Confederate at Manassas (Bull Run) - both times.


What did the union have but the confederate didn't?

They had more men to fight against the confederacy. The Union also had the government, navy, and almost all of the united states' factories.


Why did they fight in the confederate war?

The south wanted to leave the Union and start their own country; the Confederate States of America. The United States of America wouldn't allow that...and stopped them by force of arms (war).


When did the confederacy come up with the plan to fight a defencive war?

Answer The "plan" was pretty obvious. The Confederate States wanted to secede from the Union. The Union wanted to fight to hold it together. So the Union had to go into the Confederates States and disarm them and convince them to stop. All the Confederates had to do was to keep the Union armies from moving into their states.


When the Southern states seceded in the 1860s most believed the North would not fight to keep them in the Union and thus they formed the Confederate States of America?

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