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There was great variation in the reasons for fighting. As generalisations though, some of the prime reasons that poor whites fought were to defned their homeland and to maintain the Southern society that they were familiar with.

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Poor southern whites fought to defend their?

Poor southern whites fought to defend many things. These people fought to keep their land, their rights, and often their workers.


Why did many poor southern whites begin to oppose the war?

Many poor southern whites came to realize they were being used to fight a rich man's war. While scions of plantations were given deferrals from service, the ranks were mainly composed of men who had never owned a slave. Many were against secession and loyal to the union.


Why did many poor southern whites call the civil war rich man's war but a poor man's fight?

Because, as with most wars, it was funded and run by the rich but the fighters on the front lines were often poor farmers and other middle class civilians.


Defend Roosevelts campaign strategy in 1932?

During his 1932 campaign, Roosevelt and the Democratic Party mobilized the expanded ranks of the poor as well as organized labor, ethnic minorities, urbanites, and Southern whites, crafting the New Deal coalition.


What Southern democrat who became champion of poor whites?

Andrew Johnson (he was a Republican, but his actions said he was a Democrat)


Why did poor southern whites call the civil war a rich mans war?

Because the Confederacy had a law that anyone owning a certain number of slaves could be sent home; therefore the men/boys who weren't rich enough to live on plantations and such had to fight in part to preserve the way of life favored by those better off. The Southern foot soldiers referred to it as "rich man's war, poor man's fight".


Many poor whites southern laborers could no longer find work because of?

Compition of free'd black men


What best characterizes the structure of Southern society?

Society was a caste-like system with poor whites at the bottom of the white social ladder.


How did Virginians relations friendly with poor whites?

They allowed poor whites the use of their skilled slaves.


Rich virginians allowed poor whites to do what to keep good relations?

they allowed poor whites the use of their plantation barns use plantation barns They allowed poor whites the use of their skilled slaves


What did poor southern whites do as the land became exhausted from farming?

Poor southern whites often moved to search for new land once the soil became exhausted. Some turned to subsistence farming, sharecropping, or tenant farming to make a living. Others migrated to cities in search of industrial work.


What different made up southern society?

The different groups that made up Southern society include,the planters, the yeomen farmers, the poor whites, the slaves, and free African Americans.