Northern Industrialists owned the slave trade. Southern farmers purchased slaves because it was legal to do so. After this was done, the same northern industrialists grew a conscience and started the slavery abolishment movement. The northern industrialists had an underlaying reason for this. Their other industries could not compete with slave labor. They wanted the slaves freed, yet were not willing to refund the money they accepted for them. That war, as with any others, was not about slavery. It was about money. The Confederates did not necessarily want slaves. It was merely a legal option offered to them by northern based slave traders to develop agriculture in the south in the first place and hence feed the nation's anticipated growth. So within the slavery issue, matters are not exactly black and white there are many shades of gray. The Union was just as deplorable within issues of fraud.
the confederate states wanted to secede from the union on the principle of state's rights. slavery was only one of the underlying issues leading up to the secession.
The slave holding States that wanted to secede far outnumbered the slave States that wanted to remain loyal to the Union, or wanted to be neutral. These States, added to the Confederacy would have changed the course of the war to a very large extent. Nevertheless, the Confederacy believed that their way of life and economics which were heavily dependent on slavery was looking like a dim future if they remained with the Union.
The only recourse was separation and the hope that because of the European need of Southern cotton, they could be successful.
Tthe masters made a deal with the slaves that if they fought on the confederate side that the slave would b free ...if ur wonderin y since bein a confederate ment to fight for slvery well it. Was because the slave just wanted their own freedom and later if the confeds won the master coyld get another slave
The question of slavery was the issue; those that joined the confederacy believed that with Abraham Lincoln in office, he would attempt to end slavery (which wasnt the case).
The only state I heard of to join the Union during the war was West Virginia (1863), which disapproved of Virginia's secession from the USA, and seceded from Virginia.
The southern states were Confederate states. The northern states were part of the Union. :)
We were never a Confederate system, but during the Civil War, the nation was divided when the southern states seceded to become the Confederate States of America.
The Confederacy or The Confederate States of America
In 1861, the southern delegates form the confederate states of America.
The Confederate States of America.
The Confederate States of America
Confederate States of America
The Confederate States of America.
The Confederate States of America was the name.
The southern US states form the Confederate States of America
The Confederate States of America was formed in February 1861 by seven states which had seceded from the Union.
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