1) Why did the South secede?
The United States during Antebellum was a time of escalating tension. The North and the South were slowly drifting apart. It appeared like they wanted to become different nations. In reality, the South did want to become a separate entity. The differences between the two regions were plentiful, and the similarities were slim. Conflict and disagreement grew and grew until eventually it was too much to handle. The South after much deliberation decided to secede. The South decided to secede for three reasons. The South wanted to keep their slaves, fear of race mixing, and Southerners believed that the Northerners were overstepping their boundaries.
The most common belief is that the American Civil War was a war about slaves. Slaves were more than slaves. Slaves were property, and essential to Southern life. The South was primarily agricultural with a vast majority of the population, approximately 80%, working in labor. Cotton was the key export, and large cotton plantations relied heavily on slaves. Plantations owners invested large sums of money in their slaves. While only a small percentage of Southerners owned slaves, the South was dependent on slave labor. They considered blacks as …show more content…
As the war lasted longer, more opposition grew. Resources were all being sent to the war effort, and the war was the talk of the town. The war was close to everyone in one any or another. Every American was impacted by what was transpiring in their backyard. What was the motivation to keep fighting? What was the motivation to keep supporting the troops? Why were Americans so invested in this lengthy excruciating war? A variety of reasons kept morale in the war high, state and region pride was a powerful motivator especially for Confederates, ideological differences, and at one point in the war both sides were confident that they the war was going to end quickly and in their
The United States during Antebellum was a time of escalating tension. The North and the South were slowly drifting apart. It appeared like they wanted to become different nations. In reality, the South did want to become a separate entity. The differences between the two regions were plentiful, and the similarities were slim. Conflict and disagreement grew and grew until eventually it was too much to handle. The South after much deliberation decided to secede. The South decided to secede for three reasons. The South wanted to keep their slaves, fear of race mixing, and Southerners believed that the Northerners were overstepping their boundaries.
The most common belief is that the American Civil War was a war about slaves. Slaves were more than slaves. Slaves were property, and essential to Southern life. The South was primarily agricultural with a vast majority of the population, approximately 80%, working in labor. Cotton was the key export, and large cotton plantations relied heavily on slaves. Plantations owners invested large sums of money in their slaves. While only a small percentage of Southerners owned slaves, the South was dependent on slave labor. They considered blacks as …show more content…
As the war lasted longer, more opposition grew. Resources were all being sent to the war effort, and the war was the talk of the town. The war was close to everyone in one any or another. Every American was impacted by what was transpiring in their backyard. What was the motivation to keep fighting? What was the motivation to keep supporting the troops? Why were Americans so invested in this lengthy excruciating war? A variety of reasons kept morale in the war high, state and region pride was a powerful motivator especially for Confederates, ideological differences, and at one point in the war both sides were confident that they the war was going to end quickly and in their