The North believed that the Southern states had no right to quit the USA. And they wanted the cotton revenues back.
When Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation (effective from January 1863), he officially turned the war into a crusade against slavery. This was totally successful in deterring Britain from aiding the Confederates, as it would have made them look pro-slavery themselves.
But it did not convert many neutral Northerners into Abolitionists, and the average view of the war had not greatly changed.
Beliefs of people living in the Northern United States varied, though in general most believed that even if slavery should not be immediately banished, they felt that southern states had absolutely no right to secede and that the Union must be preserved. Also concerning slavery, even those who were not abolitionists, did not support slavery moving any further west because new slave states entering the Union would increase "slave power" and allow Southern States to control Congress. Additionally, the large portion of the Northern population made up of immigrants felt mainly indifferent about slavery but in any case did not want it to exist in the North because slave labor would cause competition with jobs that the poorly-paid immigrant factory workers would not be able to stand against.
No side. He was an Abolitionist fanatic, not at all representative of the North as a whole. His actions led the South to believe that the North was in favour of an armed rebellion of slaves, and that war was inevitable.
the side with the most population won because they had more power
He was Vice President under Lincoln and would have supported Union causes.
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Kentucky, W.Virginia, Maryland, and Missouri.
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The Union. (North).
The majority of the democrats were on the side of the confederates during the Civil War. Abraham Lincoln was actually a republican. Believe it or not!!!
The Union or the Yankees.
Abraham Lincoln
Massachusetts was one of twenty-three states to side with the Union (North) in the American Civil War.
The Union (North)
Slaves fought on both the north and the south side