The seceding states left the union due to issues over states' rights and slavery. Also, general differences in the people and economy (North was much more industrial than the South) led to the eventual seccesion of the South.
Aside from the obvious threat from the confederacy and Lee, the seccesion of border states was a major threat. Lincoln was hesitent to issue the Emancipation Proclaimation because he feared alienating the border states. These states were the buffer zone bettween the Confederacy and hte north. Lossing them would not only give the Confederacy more men, it would also shift the battle lines closer to Northern strong holds and the nations capitol.
A person who favors seccesion from the Union. A slang term used to that effect back after the Civil War.
They couldn't, it was to change the focus of the war to ending slavery though.
The seceding states left the union due to issues over states' rights and slavery. Also, general differences in the people and economy (North was much more industrial than the South) led to the eventual seccesion of the South.
Aside from the obvious threat from the confederacy and Lee, the seccesion of border states was a major threat. Lincoln was hesitent to issue the Emancipation Proclaimation because he feared alienating the border states. These states were the buffer zone bettween the Confederacy and hte north. Lossing them would not only give the Confederacy more men, it would also shift the battle lines closer to Northern strong holds and the nations capitol.
General William Tecumseh Sherman believed that the secession of the Southern states was misguided and unconstitutional. He viewed it as a rebellion against the federal government and emphasized the need to maintain the Union at all costs. Sherman argued that the South's actions were driven by a desire to preserve slavery and that the Union must be restored to ensure the nation's integrity and democratic principles. His military campaigns aimed to weaken the Confederacy and hasten the end of the Civil War.
Only southern farmers wanted railroad regulation. Only southern farmers wanted to form Granges. The South wanted slaves and the North opposed slavery. Also, the North wanted the nation to turn industrial, not agricultural. Like making manufactored goods and not crops like corn and cotton and beans.