Why Did Lincoln Want The South To Secede

1- Abraham Lincoln wanted to fight the Civil War because he wanted to “save the Union”. He did not want the Union to secede and would do anything to keep it as a part of the United States.

2- Jefferson Davis wanted the South to secede from the Union because he believed that the government was being unjust and if they secede they would have peace. The government became destructive to them, and as a right of the people, Davis argument was that people had the right to alter or abolish bad governments. Since the North would not change the government and their beliefs, the only way to solve the problem from the Southerners was to secede.

3- Alexander H. Stephens wanted the South to secede from the Union because in his opinion God had created blacks and whites differently. He believed that the Northerners were doing the wrong thing by considering whites and blacks as equal people. Since the Union was going against “God’s opinion”, the South had to secede. …show more content…
Many bad things happened in the South throughout the Civil War and though the meaning of the flag was never established, it is possible to see how it represents white supremacy, since many neo-Nazi people used this flag as a symbol of white