what was the souths perspective on what caused the civil war...

Answer by Rich
Submitted on 1/16/2006
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The constitution's 10th amendment reserved rights to the states. The 22 million living in the North passed tariffs on European imports needed by the 9 million living in the South and used the money for primarily Northern development projects. By violating the constitution and moving troops into the Fort Sumner area, the North created a situation where the Law of the Land was violated. The Southern States have every right to secede. Lincoln in his inaugural address denied he planned to end slavery. The largest slave holding state in the US at the time of the secession was New York. Many Northern states prohibited free blacks from entering. Lincoln in his letter to Horace Greeley stated his goal was to preserve the union and had no desire to either continue or end slavery. The War of Northern Aggression was purely an economical and states rights issue in which the North ignored the Constitution of the United States and sought to impose by force their will on the Southern States who were their financial prey. The constitution did not prohibit secession, therefore by the 10th amendment, it was a right secured by each state. Prevention of secession by force was a violation of the constitution and demonstrates why the South felt the need. The South was not the first group of states to propose secession. The New England states actually proposed it first.

Answer by Parker
Submitted on 3/9/2007
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The South felt they had a right to secede from the Union just like the colonies had a right to secede from England. In fact the Southern Declaration of Independence had many passages quoted word for word from the original US Declaration we wrote to England. The actual fighting was started when the militia of South Carolina attacked fort Sumter which guards Charlston harbor. It's debatable who was the aggressor-the federal military force who refused to leave when the South declared itself a separate country or the South Carolina force that drove them out. The majority of the war, however, was actually the North conquering the South, and was percieved as an act of imperialism. The only justification they seem to have is that the southern population was a people of slaveholders and therefore morally inferior and deserved to be conquered. This notion illustrates the Southern view that the Northern armies were barbaric invaders and the South was just trying to defend what if felt was its right to be independent if it so desired.

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Question by hello
Submitted on 3/31/2004
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what was the souths perspective on what caused the civil war

Answer by stevec
Submitted on 6/10/2004
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The Southern states refer to the "civil war" as the war of Northern aggression. I imagine the South was content with their system until the Northern states began to change the policies of the nation. So, the perspective was one of a persecuted minority. Ironic huh.

Answer by Ronny Imir
Submitted on 9/6/2004
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Answer by confederate
Submitted on 11/9/2004
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u blaimin the war on me again im gonna kill u and ur cat

Answer by blnkgurl@hotmail.com
Submitted on 12/22/2004
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Dumb Yankees ;)

Answer by your moms thong
Submitted on 4/17/2005
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well we like those afromonkeys!

Answer by Jesus
Submitted on 6/8/2005
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I think it was caused by greed and anger with in the monks.

Answer by Mack "Phat-T" Rivkin
Submitted on 12/11/2005
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No. Stevec is totally wrong. It was the opposite!

Answer by gjhieguybchdfbvhgrygubchjbcu
Submitted on 12/2/2006
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i dont know

Answer by Anonymous
Submitted on 7/9/2007
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Unfair taxation, being outnumbered in Congress (therefore giving the North an unfair advantage in governmental affairs), many things. Really depends on which state you're talking about, too, as the different Southern states had different reasons for secession. The strongest reason overall, however, was a preference for states' rights over federalism.

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