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Question: 2 Questions about the Civil War!? {{{10 Points!}}}!?
1!. What sides were the North and South states on!?
2!. What was the reason for the Southern states to leave the union!?

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The causes of the American Civil War changed during the progress of the conflict!. Towards the end, the main argument was about slavery but that wasn't the orginal cause although there had been an under-current of antislavery in North-South relations for many years!. John Brown's private war against slave owners was not taken up by the Federal government, and woul dnot have been allowed to become a cause for armed conflict!. The only real reason for the fighting was the Southern desire for separation and opposing the Northern insistence on unity!.

The main cause of Southern unhappiness was the Federal tendency to favour Northern states in matters of public policy, trade, subsidies and protection for industry and so on!. Generally, the Washington government regarded the South as self-sufficient, insular and backward looking!. The North was seen as modern, effective, and successful in wealth-generation!. The formation of the Confederacy was about the self-esteem of Southern states and protection for its own industry (mostly cotton, sugar and tobacco produce)!.

After 1862, the creation of Black regiments in the Union Army led Lincoln and others to espouse emancipation as a major policy goal!. There was little evidence that the majority of Northern voters gave any thought to the slavery question but it became another reason to fight and defeat the "Southern rebels"!.

After the end of the war, during the period we call the of "Reconstruction of the South", the principal beneficiaries were Northern businessmen and speculators!. The effects on the freed slaves were minimal, proving that the emancipation issue was a matter of rhetoric and political expediency at that time!.

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1!. south wanted state freedom and states being able to use nullification by themselves because of sectionalisum which is in this case putting ones country before ones state the north wanted no slavery and no nullification

2!. the south left the union because 1) they did not belive in the things the north did such as no slavery and disagreed politicly because of nullification which is states being able to ignore a law they feel is unconstitutionalWww@QuestionHome@Com

What sides were they on!? The North was on the Northern side!.!.!.it was the Union!. The South was the Confederacy!.

I suspect that nagging guilty conscience over slavery and declining Southern fortunes in general vis a vis the North was the fundamental cause of the secession and so, the Civil War!.
The last Democratic Party convention before the war broke up over the refusal of the Northern Democrats to endorse a resolution, "Slavery is right!." The Southerners used to (in the 18th Century) have the people, the money, and the great leaders!. The Southerners were conscious of the South falling behind the North in area after area!. To endure also being MORALLY inferior to the North, as the Northern abolitionists insisted, was not possible for them in that frame of mind!. They loved Ivanhoe! They wanted to be the noble good guys!Www@QuestionHome@Com

If I understand the questions correctly

1!. North= Union and South= Confederate

2!. States RightsWww@QuestionHome@Com