What do you believe?

Question

Do you being the Civil War fundmental issue was slavery or do you think the south fear of overreach of the federal govenrment?

State why you believe this.

Answer 1

In the 1770s, the South had every reason to continue the relationship with England, one of its best customers. It was the manufacturing North that was getting the short end of that stick. Southerners joined the Revolutionary War out of patriotism, idealism, and enlightened political philosophy such as motivated Jefferson, not patriotism, philosophy, and economic betterment which inspired the North.
In 1860, the shoe was on the other foot. Southern agrarians were at heel to the nation's bankers and industrialists. That just got worse with the election of the Republican Lincoln, bringing back into power the party favoring the wealthy supply side, as it still does.
Then as now central to that, party's interest was keeping down the cost of manufacture. Today labor is the big cost, so today they move the plants offshore and leave US workers to their fate. Back before the US labor movement existed the big cost was raw materials, and the GOP was just as unprincipled toward its Southern suppliers as it is today toward labor.
Thanks to modern graveyard science and surviving records, researchers know that in 1760, 100 years before the War Between the States, Charleston, South Carolina, had the largest population of slaves and we say proudly the second largest slave population was in New York City.
One of the main quarrels was about taxes paid on goods brought into this country from foreign countries. This tax was called a tariff. Southerners felt these tariffs were unfair and aimed toward them because they imported a wider variety of goods than most Northern people. Taxes were also placed on many Southern goods that were shipped to foreign countries, an expense that was not always applied to Northern goods of equal value. An awkward economic structure allowed states and private transportation companies to do this, which also affected Southern banks that found themselves paying higher interest rates on loans made with banks in the North. As industry in the North expanded, it looked towards southern markets, rich with cash from the lucrative agricultural business, to buy the North's manufactured goods. The situation grew worse after several "panics", including one in 1857 that affected more Northern banks than Southern. Southern financiers found themselves burdened with high payments just to save Northern banks that had suffered financial losses through poor investment. However, it was often cheaper for the South to purchase the goods abroad. In order to "protect" the northern industries Jackson slapped a tariff on many of the imported goods that could be manufactured in the North. When South Carolina passed the Ordinance of Nullification in November 1832, refusing to collect the tariff and threatening to withdraw from the Union, Jackson ordered federal troops to Charleston. A secession crisis was averted when Congress revised the Tariff of Abominations in February 1833. The Panic of 1837 and the ensuing depression began to gnaw like a hungry animal on the flesh of the American system. The disparity between northern and southern economies was exacerbated. Before and after the depression the economy of the South prospered. Southern cotton sold abroad totaled 57% of all American exports before the war. The Panic of 1857 devastated the North and left the South virtually untouched. The clash of a wealthy, agricultural South and a poorer, industrial North was intensified by abolitionists who were not above using class struggle to further their cause.
In the years before the Civil War the political power in the Federal government, centered in Washington, D.C., was changing. Northern and mid-western states were becoming more and more powerful as the populations increased. Southern states lost political power because the population did not increase as rapidly. As one portion of the nation grew larger than another, people began to talk of the nation as sections. This was called sectionalism. Just as the original thirteen colonies fought for their independence almost 100 years earlier, the Southern states felt a growing need for freedom from the central Federal authority in Washington. Southerners believed that state laws carried more weight than Federal laws, and they should abide by the state regulations first. This issue was called State's Rights and became a very warm topic in congress.

These are facts not emotions or unsupported claims, now what was the War over?


God Bless You and The Southern People.

Answer 2

Slavery was a ride along issue. The basic issues were States Rights. Ironically during the Civil War States Rights were infringed upon by the Confederate Government time and again by President Jefferson Davis.

Most Southerners did not own slaves much less live on a large Plantation. Most were small farmers who had to do the manual labor themselves.

Also bear in mind that Lincoln did not free any slave that was in the Union, he only freed those slaves that were in the States that were in rebellion.

Answer 3

The South was rich but the North had the resources. The South had the plantations and slaves. The North was bursting at its seams from the emigrant population. The cotton could only be shipped from the Northern ports. The North did not like this. They decided that the wealth should be distributed more evenly. After the Civil War slavery was put to an end. But it might have been in the minds of a few people during and was like a by product of the war.
This much I recall learning in India.

Answer 4

I believe the South wanted it's own way of living not interfered with by the federal government. I state this because slavery was not the issue for 90% of the Confederate Army. Only an elite few owned slaves. Most southerners did not. Slavery was an issue, yes, but not the fundamental one.

Answer 5

The "Issue" with Slavery in America has little to nothing to do with the Civil War. The history books were "dumbed up" cluttered with false information and rhetoric in order to perpetuate the Slavery issue. It's called the Blame Game. The bigger issues were : Shipping lanes, Politics, Land, Politics, Capitalism, Politics, Religion, Politics and so on. While the Slaves were willing to fight for their "Emancipation", ( which Lincoln had initiated himself to enlist more soldiers ) along side "white soldiers. The American people at that time weren't about to fight and die for "Slaves" . The focus should be "Why did the South want to secede from the Union? that's where the real issues lie.

Answer 6

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Answer 7

each slave counted as 3/5 of a person as far as representation in Washington, D.C. if the slaves were freed and made citizens, they would count as 1 whole person for representation. because they greatly outnumbered the whites, they could have swayed votes in their favor against their white opressors....

Answer 8

It was mainly about slavery because some states wanted it to be abolished and others wanted it to be legalized.