History? I just wanted some clarification on what the question is asking me?

Question

What indicators existed, from the beginning of the Republic, that the Civil War was likely? Why did the South believe it had no option but to leave the Union?
Okay, I am wondering what is the Republic? Thanks for the help.

Answer 1

All the above on the Republic but the South left with the firing upon Ft Sumter to let the North no that "States Rights are what matters according to the Constitution of the United States of America!! Slavery wasn't an issue till the Emancipation Proclamation of 1863 that 2/3 of the Union Army deserted upon being told the Civil War was being fought under this guise. Riots in New York,New Jersey ,and parts of the rest of the New England States over a draft resulting in such desertions were a seperate battle fought by the Penn. New York Militia because to avoid the draft you had to come up with$500 witch just as well have been $5,000,000 because the poor could not come up with this amount and they burnt down a lot of New York and Jersey because of this

Answer 2

The Republic was the United States prior to the South leaving the Union.

Answer 3

The Republic is the entire United States. The Republic was divided during the Civil War between north and south. Hope this helps.

Answer 4

The United States' form of government is republican. If the country, or for that matter the individual states, were more a pure democracy, the southern states wouldn't have felt the need to seceed, since only a small minority were slave-holders. But if you follow the money, often a good tactic, you'll see that slavery had a grip on the southern states' economy, especially among the ruling elite, and those states were headed towards being a collection of police states. Democratic principles still applied, though, to an extent, and a degree of hypocrisy is to be expected when money's involved, so a growing, economically viable set of free states were bound to outvote a more static set of slave states on issues like tax bills. It's been said that democracy ends when 51% of the populace realize they can vote themselves the wealth of the other 49%, so there's your inevitable split. The Massachussets compromise, counting slaves as 3/5ths of a person for apportionment purposes, was obviously artificial and bound to fail at some point.

Answer 5

the question is asking if there were any clues during the formation of the United States that eventually the nation would be divided into North and South during the Civil War. One thing you could talk about is the question of slavery, which was raised during the drafting of the U.S. Constitution. Many representatives from the South feared that the Constitution would restrict and/or abolish slavery and the slave trade. In order to get many Southern states to ratify the U.S. Constitution, a clause was included which barred Congress from ending the Atlantic slave trade before 1808.