Why did the confederacy form?

Answer 1

We (the US) had an embargo between some European countries and could not import cotton. We got slaves (who happened to be black) and forced them to pick our homegrown cotton. We segregated them from the white feeling they were workers and not of the same class. The North had a problem with this stating "All men are equal". The South's need for cotton and some true racists fought to see to it, that slaves were kept for their own personal gain. The confederate 1st 2nd and 3rd flags are just designs of the different flags "Bonnie Blue" being the first. The rectangular confederate flag was NOT their battle flag but a symbol of the Confederacy (and now the musical genre Sounthern Rock Music) But the square confederate flag was the battle flag because when the man carrying it was shot, soldiers had a slit second longer to get the their falling flag before it hit the gound.

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The above answer has some correct information but some errors too.

Most of the North was quite racist too, believing that the non-whites were inherently inferior to whites. Even Lincoln expressed that opinion early in his political career - although he may have changed his mind after he became President and met some of the distinguished African American scholars like Fredrick Douglas. The North differed significantly from the South in holding that slavery was immoral (even for enslaving "inferior" people"). The North was also much more industrialized and slave labor was not as useful as it was for the massive plantations in the South. The North had a sufficient majority in Congress to ignore the South when it came to issues that might negatively impact the South - including anything that might protect slavery or the export of the cotton produced on plantations where slaves were used. As new territories were added, few of them were interested in allowing slavery within their borders and so the Senate became majority Northern and anti-slavery. As these new states joined the union, the influence of the South in national policies was constantly diminishing. Since the Southern states feared that the Congress would fail to protect slavery - and might actually vote to abolish it, they chose to secede and form a separate country where they could preserve slavery. They also feared that the North-controlled Congress would chose to protect Northern industries by imposing tariffs, which would almost certainly lead to other countries imposing tariffs on imports from the USA. This would hurt the South far more than the North since the Southern economy was heavily dependent on exporting their cotton to those countries that would be imposing tariffs.