Urban white workers and wealthy industrialists from the North supported the South in its resistance to abolition.
The South opposed Abolition because slavery was the mainstay of the cotton industry, the only big export of the South, representing half the exports of the USA. For this reason, most people inthe North alsoopposed Abolition because the cotton revenues were so important. The Abolitionists were not very numerous, although they included some highly influential people. (Lincoln was not one of them.) After 'Uncle Tom's Cabin' was published, many more people became Abolitionists, but they still remained quitea minority.
In the American Civil War, the two opposed forces were the Union (also known as the North) and the Confederacy (also known as the South).
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The Northeners that opposed abolition were the people who profited from it, sach as the textile mill owners and merchants who relied on slave labor in the South for cotton.
Urban white workers and wealthy industrialists from the North supported the South in its resistance to abolition.
Urban white workers and wealthy industrialists from the North supported the South in its resistance to abolition.
Urban white workers and wealthy industrialists from the North supported the South in its resistance to abolition.
An antiabolitionist is a person who opposed the abolition of slavery.
quakers
Several northern groups supported the South in its resistance to abolition, primarily due to economic interests and social ties. Wealthy industrialists and merchants who relied on cotton and slave labor for their businesses often backed Southern interests. Additionally, some political factions, including the Know-Nothing Party, opposed abolition on the grounds of preserving the Union and maintaining social order. Certain religious and cultural groups also expressed sympathy for the South, viewing slavery as a regional institution that should not be interfered with by the federal government.
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copperheads were mid westerners that sympathized with the south and opposed abolition
copperheads were mid westerners that sympathized with the south and opposed abolition
Various groups opposed the abolitionist movement, including Southern slaveholders, pro-slavery politicians, and white supremacist organizations like the Ku Klux Klan. These groups benefited economically and socially from the institution of slavery and feared the consequences of its abolition, such as loss of labor and power dynamics shifting. They often used violence, intimidation, and legal mechanisms to preserve slavery and suppress the abolitionist cause.
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