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Well, honey, those "Yankees" were called that because it was a slang term used by the Confederates to refer to folks from the Union states up north. It's like a little name-calling game they played during the Civil War. So, yeah, if you were fighting for the Union, you were a Yankee in the eyes of the Confederates.
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SteveOh, dude, so like, back in the Civil War days, the term "Yankee" was used to refer to people from the northern states, especially those from New England. It's like a nickname that stuck around, probably because it sounded kinda fun to say. So yeah, basically, if you were from up north, you were a Yankee, whether you liked it or not.
Yankee had long been a term used to describe people from New England. Southerners generalized the term to include all Northerners. The source of the widespread use among southerners to refer to northerners as Yankees may have been mistral shows plying the Mississippi on showboats.
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Actually, the word is even older than that. Yankee1683, a name applied disparagingly by Dutch settlers in New Amsterdam (New York) to English colonists in neighboring Connecticut. It may be from Du. Janke, lit. "Little John," dim. of common personal name Jan; or it may be from Jan Kes familiar form of "John Cornelius," or perhaps an alteration of Jan Kees, dialectal variant of Jan Kaas, lit. "John Cheese," the generic nickname the Flemings used for Dutchmen. It originally seems to have been applied insultingly to the Dutch, especially freebooters, before they turned around and slapped it on the English. A less-likely theory is that it represents some southern New England Algonquian language mangling of English. In English a term of contempt (1750s) before its use as a general term for "native of New England" (1765); during the American Revolution it became a disparaging British word for all American native or inhabitants. Shortened form Yank in reference to "an American" first recorded 1778.
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What were Northerners who helped the South during the Civil War called?
traitors.
Who were the Yankees in the war?
Yankees were the northern part of America to fight in the civil war the "blue guys"
What was the north called in the Civil War?
In the civil war, the North was called the Union.
Northerners who came to the south after the civil war were known as?
Northerners who moved to the south for profit oppurtunities were called carpetbaggers.
Fought against the Yankees during civil war?
Theconfederates
