Well, most of them were forced to accept the fourteenth amendment, thus implying that they needed to protect the Bill of Rights.
The civil war was about slavery the united states split and the southern states wanted slavery but the northern states said every one has to follow the laws that forbid slavery
Although slavery was used as a catalyst, the central issue of the war between the states was state rights vs, federal rights; the southern states did not want the federal government to have the power nor authority to tell them what to do.
The election of Lincoln, who had refused to allow any extension of slavery.
The main issue of federalism during 1789 to 1865 was whether States would accept the federal government as the ultimate authority. The United States practices dual federalism.
The main motive of the Civil War in the United States was the conflict over slavery. The Southern states wanted to preserve and expand the institution of slavery, while the Northern states opposed it and sought to abolish it. This disagreement over slavery ultimately led to the secession of the Southern states and the outbreak of the Civil War.
The main goal of Reconstruction was to reunite the northern and southern states after the American Civil War. In particular, its aim was to help the South be rebuilt upon its readmission to the Union.
The main goal of Reconstruction was to reunite the northern and southern states after the American Civil War. In particular, its aim was to help the South be rebuilt upon its readmission to the Union.
The main issues were: for the North to preserve the Union, for the South the States' Rights and Southern Independence.
The civil war was about slavery the united states split and the southern states wanted slavery but the northern states said every one has to follow the laws that forbid slavery
The main industry in the Southern States was farming. The most prevalent crops were cotton and tobacco. The Southern States, before the Civil War, sold these crops to the Northern States and in European markets.
Although slavery was used as a catalyst, the central issue of the war between the states was state rights vs, federal rights; the southern states did not want the federal government to have the power nor authority to tell them what to do.
Yes, that is one of the main reasons 11 of the Southern states seceded from the Union, and attempted to form the Confederate States of America, which was a main cause of the US Civil War.
to increase the power of the southern states in congress.
The Union had spent the entire war claiming that the Confederate States had never left the Union. Now the Confederate States were forced to apply for "readmission", which would hardly have been necessary if the Union's theory of the war was correct. Several southern states relatively quickly satisfied requirements and resumed a state government, before Radical Reconstruction was begun, and these then had usually to redraft their state constitutions to suit the radicals. All southern states were required to "ratify" the 13th, 14th and 15th Amendments to the Constitution as the price of readmission. A number of states in the south had already considered and rejected these amendments. It takes three fourths of the states ratifying an amendment for it to become effective as law. Since the north wanted to pretend the southern states had never left, they needed the southern "ratifications" for these amendments to become effective. So the southern states were forced to "ratify" them with a gun to their heads, as the price of being able to "resume" having their own state governments and ending their military occupation. The southern states were forced to allow the freed slaves to vote, something free blacks in the north could not do. White southerners were not allowed to vote if they had anything to do with the Confederacy. Since this was practically every man in the south, this meant the freed slaves could vote but white people could not. This bred a great deal of resentment in white southerners, and helped fuel the rise of the Klan. After the Republicans stole the election of 1876 and agreed to withdraw the last of the military occupation of the south if the Democrats would shut up about it, then the white southerners returned to power and instituted "Jim Crow" laws and "black codes", to strip away the rights recently given to freed slaves.
contrary to poplar belief, states rights and not slavery was the main issue. Slavery became the issue after President Lincoln issued the emmancipation proclamation, freeing the slaves in the union and border states.
The economy of the US Southern States was based on agriculture. Cotton and tobacco were the main crops for decades, including colonial America to the present.
to increase the power of the southern states in congress.