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Except slavery was not made an issue until Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation, in September 1862, when Abraham Lincoln decided to free the slaves in the Confederate States in order to punish those states for continuing the war effort. The war had been in progress for almost two years by that time.
Most southerners did not even own slaves nor did they own plantations. Most of them were small farmers who worked their farms with their families. They were fighting for their rights. They were fighting to maintain their lifestyle and their independence
way without the United States Government dictating to them how they should behave.
Lincoln didn't want to end slavery, only stop it's expansion into new territories. The reasons for the Civil War were different economies, state’s rights to vote on laws, and the election of Abraham Lincoln as president.
The War Between the States began because the South demanded States' rights and were not getting them. The Congress at that time heavily favored the industrialized northern states to the point of demanding that the South sell is cotton and other raw materials only to the factories in the north, rather than to other countries. The Congress also taxed the finished materials that the northern industries produced heavily, making finished products that the South wanted, unaffordable.
The Civil War should not have occurred. If the Northern States and their representatives in Congress had only listened to the problems of the South, and stopped these practices that were almost like the taxation without representation of Great Britain, then the Southern states would not have seceded and the war would not have occurred.
I would never say that I supported my southern heritage during the Civil War, but there was more to it than ending the awful truth of slavery, which was dying out anyway.
Most southerners did not even own slaves nor did they own plantations. Most of them were small farmers who worked their farms with their families. They were fighting for their rights. They were fighting to maintain their lifestyle and their independence
way without the United States Government dictating to them how they should behave.
Lincoln didn't want to end slavery, only stop it's expansion into new territories. The reasons for the Civil War were different economies, state’s rights to vote on laws, and the election of Abraham Lincoln as president.
The War Between the States began because the South demanded States' rights and were not getting them. The Congress at that time heavily favored the industrialized northern states to the point of demanding that the South sell is cotton and other raw materials only to the factories in the north, rather than to other countries. The Congress also taxed the finished materials that the northern industries produced heavily, making finished products that the South wanted, unaffordable.
The Civil War should not have occurred. If the Northern States and their representatives in Congress had only listened to the problems of the South, and stopped these practices that were almost like the taxation without representation of Great Britain, then the Southern states would not have seceded and the war would not have occurred.
I would never say that I supported my southern heritage during the Civil War, but there was more to it than ending the awful truth of slavery, which was dying out anyway.