What did the south fight for during the civil war?

Answer 1

Because the united states were a country that was going to be split apart as a result of the ambitions of a group of separatists that wanted their own country. They Felt compelled to protect the interests of the whole country, all of it. Slavery quite coincidentally only became an issue because it was economic suicide for it to exist in a country that wished to be competitive in the world.

Answer 2

Primarily to keep the Union together and not let the States split. The Union (or the North) beleived that the Southern States did not have the right to leave the Union. That point of law has been debated for a long time.Type your answer here...

Answer 3

Well, many confederates did not own slaves so it was not the most important thing to be able to keep their slaves. A great deal just wanted to stick up for the south because they were born and raised on southern pride and heritage.The Confederates did not like thinking that they were being pushed around by the Union and therefore wanted to be their own country. A lot of the arguments that led to Civil War included the new states and territories being added to the U.S and the decision needed to be made if those places would allow slaves or not. The Confederates wanted any new state to allow slavery.(I'm not an expert on Confederates or the Civil War, this is what I've heard.)

Yes, whoever typed that they are very understanding about us, the Confederates and the Confederates also want the tariff taxes to be abolished because the South imported more goods than the north therefore they felt that they taxes were aimed towards them. They also wanted Abraham Lincoln to not be president because he was for everything that they were against. For Example: Abolish slavery, Federal Rights, and tariffs. Finally they confederates wanted states rights.

Comment: Let me be very clear on several points: 1) More than 75% of whites in the south did not own slaves. 2) At no point in time, before the civil war, did Lincoln ever mention abolishment of slavery. 3) During the civil war, the Emancipation Proclamation was specifically leveled against states that had seceded; four slave states that remained in the union were unaffected by the order. 4) There was a standing gag order in Congress preventing them from even talking about slavery, much less abolishing it. 5) Until about the time of the Dred Scott decision, abolishionists were largely thought to be the "lunatic fringe," and most of what they said was ignored by the legislatures of the federal and state governments.

The most likely scenario is that the extremely wealthy plantation owners managed to convince the general people that the federal government had overstepped its bounds. Lets face it; the poor whites, who owned no land, owned no slaves, and couldn't vote, had nothing to gain from the war, whether they knew it or not. The situation was ugly enough that the Confederate Army rapidly ran out of volunteers and had to institute conscription (what we would now call the Draft). On top of everything else, no foreign nation recognized the Confederacy as a sovereign power, and they lost much of the trade they were counting on to support the war effort. Even without the Union blockade, much of the cotton for export would have sat on the docks anyway. All of this basically crushed Confederate morale; about 2/3 of the Confederate Army deserted, which really suggests that they began to question why they were fighting at all.

Answer 4

They were fighting against slavery.

Answer 5

The restoration of the Union.