what did the south think about the north fighting against slavery?

Answer 1

The Southerners felt that abolishing Slavery was an infringement of their rights to own property and to legally be able to take that property with them to other States.

Answer 2

While slavery was certainly the spark that started the Civil War, there were other issues that provided the fuel. Slavery became a pivotal issue because of the different types of economies in North and South. In the North, where industry predominated, there were plenty of people to work in the factories. In the South, where agriculture was the basis of the economy, there were not enough people to manage the farms. This in NO WAY excuses owning other people, but there was a need for workers, Northerners wouldn't come south to work and the system had been in place for over one hundred years. The Southerners made up myriad reasons to excuse what they did, in order to keep their economy stable. The evidence for the economic concern is provided by the Reconstruction Era and it's devastation on the South. Again, there is no excuse for slavery and most Southerners-believe it or not-did not own slaves or support slavery. Additionally, there were a significant number of Northerners who had no interest or concern in slavery as it related to the slaves themselves. However, once "South" and "North" had taken sides, pride would not allow either side to give in. Ego and arrogance-not altruism or lack of it-were the central causes of the Civil War.

Answer 3

1. It is self-evident that the South considered a violation of states rights by a centralized government who they believed lack the legality and authority to end slavery.
2. The South was prosperous with King Cotton and had an effective trade agreement with England and one way it was immensely profitable was to have slavery existed. It was part of the Southern agrarian economy and they believed the North was trying to cut off their way of life by economic strangulation .
3.The South held fast to the Dred Scott decision of 1857 and they believed that the North was protecting blacks from being transported back to the South after they left southern territory.
4. They believed the North was hypocritical in their attitude to slavery. While believing to fight against slavery they did not believe in helping the black any further and the north through their industrial complex had people working for long hours, low pay, subliminal working and living conditions of a working low paying slavery complex.

Answer 4

each 3 hundred and sixty 5 days individuals have become further and extra pissed with Congress and political events greater often than no longer, we now have a cut up of a million/3 Democrats, a million/3 Republicans and a million/3 Independents. that's the initiating of the tip for the two significant events in the event that they are not getting something carried out, individuals have become bored stiff with occasion politics and are initiating to easily vote out all incumbents no count number what occasion they signify. Edit: Slaves have been some distance from loose labour, an person male value 2000 funds at public sale and he had to be clothed, fed, and housed, infrequently loose labour. it is why the South pushed for the Fugitive slave act.

Answer 5

Well, they obviously didn't like it. That's what the Fugitive Slave Law was for - to keep escaped slaves in. Southerners thought abolitionists troublemakers. Funny thing was, as one person put it - The North "hated the individual, loved the race," and the South "loved the individual, hated the race."

You won't find very many Northerners back then who really thought blacks to be true brothers. That's what the Jim Crow laws was all about.

Answer 6

About as much as other uneducated lazy people who did not want to study and chose to believe what the Victor told them!

“and they [Yankees] are marked ... with such a perversity of character, as to constitute, from that circumstance, the natural division of our parties” Thomas Jefferson

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 7

they didn't like it, but the war wasn't about slavery like they would like you to believe