Civil war question?

Question

How did political influences worsen the relationship between the North and the south during the civil war
(cite sources plz!!)

Answer 1

While the actual war was over states rights, the politics of the abolution of slavery were what built an enormous emotional divide between north and south. It was very much akin to the anti-abortionists in our time, as the moral and ethical aspects are very similar.

The first link is about John Greenleaf Whittier who wrote a poem in 1848 about the abolution of slavery. There were the Yale Abolitionists in the second link. The Quakers had some slave traders in their numbers early on, but they took a united position against it and many prominent abolitionists before the Civil War were Quakers. Another name is Theodore Weld, along with Lucricia Coffin Mott, and William Lloyd Garrison, etc.

All of these stirred a big political pot. While Lincoln was preoccupied with pulling the fragmented nation together, much of the North's motivators were abolutionists. Some of the rest of the "Union" could really care less.