Southerners believed they were fighting for 1. Slavery 2. their rural way of life
States rights and property rights.
Most southerners weren't for the war, they just wanted freedom from the North and the ability to own slaves. Less than 5% of the people in the South owned even a single slave. The South was agricultural and exports of agricultural products were taxed. The North was industrialized and the import of finished products was taxed. Before the Civil War 85% of the national budget was collected in the southern states.
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South had no government. The North was established and had the United States constitution as well as the leadership of the president, a military, and congress.
The fighting at Lexington and Concord began after than the British passed more tax laws. I believe on my opinion that the British soldiers said fire and that's how the fighting began,
no most of the southerners did not believe secession was illegal
States rights and property rights.
Freedman's Bureau
Southerners believed that there was nothing in the US Constitution that prevented a State that had voluntarily joined the United States to secede from it. Based on the Constitution that was correct.
Not if you read some of the blogs by Southerners - they're still fighting the war today.
the difficulty of the civil war was that the people fought as hard as they could. They risked their lives fighting. The north had more people, factories and railroads. Southerners were fighting to protect their lands.
the difficulty of the civil war was that the people fought as hard as they could. They risked their lives fighting. The north had more people, factories and railroads. Southerners were fighting to protect their lands.
Advocate
Not all hate US southerners, but the many that do choose to because of stereotypes they tend to believe (e.g., they believe all southerners are racist and hostile because of the dark history in the south, are unhealthy because of food normally served, are uneducated because of accents and terms used in speech, etc.) Based on those reasons, they think southerners deserve to not be liked although those stereotypes do not hold true for many who live down south.
Many believe they were fighting because of their ancestors and it became a tradition
Not all hate US southerners, but the many that do choose to because of stereotypes they tend to believe (e.g., they believe all southerners are racist and hostile because of the dark history in the south, are unhealthy because of food normally served, are uneducated because of accents and terms used in speech, etc.) Based on those reasons, they think southerners deserve to not be liked although those stereotypes do not hold true for many who live down south.
Confederate soldiers thought that they were fighting for the sovereignty of the Confederacy, and the right of white southerners to make their own choices and run their own lives (and the lives of their black slaves).