Was The North or South right???

Question

in 1820 nowhere in the north was there slavery or was it allowed. but i ask you why should something like that tear our north and south states apart?
if they dident want slavery and the south did they should have just let it be, do you think the war was right? was the north right or was the south right?

Answer 1

I think the south was right .Yeah baby that's right baby we need slaves to do our dirty work.I don't care if they are black, white, mexican, or whatever as long as they are smart so they can do our homework for us. Like bi*/* if you don't it's 100 stripes on your back haaaaaaaahhhhhh. go on home gurllllllllll

Answer 2

There was slavery in the North. Making something illegal only works if you enforce the laws and many people in the North believed in slavery was acceptable so even after laws against slavery were passed people still kept slaves. This was well documented in New York City, although it is not popularly known.

Right or wrong? What is right and what is wrong?

My take is that forcing people to do something is wrong, that makes slavery wrong but it also makes forcing people to stop having slaves wrong. So which is the lesser wrong?

In my opinion it is acceptable to use force to prevent someone from hurting or oppressing another person so I believe that the actions President Lincoln took in starting the Civil War were right, even though the Civil War has been called illegal and a horrendous waste of "American Lives".

Reading the letters of Secession of the states gives you a good understanding of the fact that the civil war was really about slavery.

From Georgia;s letter of secession: "The party of Lincoln, called the Republican party, under its present name and organization, is of recent origin. It is admitted to be an anti-slavery party."

Answer 3

Rather than giving a short and simple answer as "yes" or "no", let us look at the matter from a different point of view.
At the time of the Civil War, the north was becoming industrialized, while the south based its economy solely on agriculture. The industry in the north needed cheap labor, namely the the black people of the south who were slaves and worked in the fields and cotton plantations. After the civil war and the abolition of slavery, a lot of black people moved up north and became slaves of the industry.
Therefore, I would say the war was not really about abolishing slavery, but about who would get hold of the cheap labor of black people.

Answer 4

The Civil war had nothing to do with slavery. It was about states rights. The federal government was taxing the south heavily on cotton and tobacco among other things so for the south to keep its agrarian economy functioning it needed cheap slave labor. when the north tried to tell the south to make more money and to do it their way the south decided the federal government shouldn't tell the states in the south how to do things. If the civil war was only about slavery then blacks wouldn't have fought on the side of the confederacy. I think the south had a valid argument for states rights, but they shouldn't have seceded from the union, they should have argued in congress and maybe they would have won some points instead they lost everything and were treated quite poorly after the war.

Answer 5

It was about more than the right to hold slaves it was about policy and who should make it. It was about land and who should own it. It was about the formation of this country even more so than the Revolution. No one group was all right or all wrong everyone had their reasons and felt they were correct in having them. It was a tragedy and it is often overlooked that it caused a great rift in this country that is still there today. The civil war has many websites but I found this one particularly interesting as it really goes into the minutia:
The American Civil War (1861–1865) was a civil war between the United States of America, called the Union, and the Confederate States of America, formed by eleven Southern states that had declared their secession from the Union. The Union won a decisive victory, followed by a period of Reconstruction. The war produced more than 970,000 casualties (3 percent of population), including approximately 560,000 deaths. The causes of the war, the reasons for the outcome, and even the name of the war itself, are subjects of much controversy, even today. (quoted from: http://www.factasy.com/civil_war/index.shtml)

Answer 6

We're doing that in TX history right now i think the Unionist were right if not than even now we would have slaves Abraham Lincoln Had the right idea when he said the southerners had no right to leave the union Southerners just took the US constitution and scratched out United and put confederate and put slavery OK and no tariffs Im sad to say TX was one of those states but then Sam Houston set it straight even if he lost it all!!!

Answer 7

Slavery existed not only in the north and south US but thruout the world. No, of course it is not right. People say many evils are "right" because they are attempting to justify their needs and/or beliefs. Finally, no I do not think the war is right but then I don't believe we have the right to kill other people for any reason although I can understand self-defense. Self-defense is a human reaction to a situation but killing involves a conscious decision to end someone's life.

Answer 8

The first slaves were brought to and lived on Long Island. There were people on both sides that did not believe in slavery. More of these people were located in the North.

It is never right to keep people enslaved for any reason whatsoever. Think of the horrors such as taking away a child from its parents and selling it. Education of the slaves was outlawed. If you ran away and were caught, you could legally be killed and no one did anything about it. They could not own property, marry, clothing was provided for them, no medical attention or very little was provided.

In the final analysis, I feel the North was right.

Answer 9

The war was NOT about slavery, that's just to hide the truth.

There were slaves in the north, just not as many as the south.

The way the government was acting was the real reason for the war.

i wish I could remember the exact reasons but I can't. I heard a whole show about this quite a few years ago on the radio, and the main conclusion that I do remember was that slavery was not the real issue.

Answer 10

So your saying because the South thought it was OK to own people as slaves that the North should have let it go? Do you really believe that. What if your family was rounded up wherever you live and shipped across the ocean to be possibly split up and sold to the highest bidder who forced you to work for no compensation other than room and board. Would you still think it was OK then?

Answer 11

i believe that the north was right, cuz how would u feel if u were being enslaved and being told what to do, when to do it. and how would u feel if someone just went to ur home country and took u out of ur home to come work in a country where ur opinion did not matter, in a country where u couldnt vote, where u did not have any rights. put urself into their shoes and really think about the situation. and how u would feel if it happened to u. only then will u find what the answer is and who was right