Slavery had been around America ever since the colonies. Slaves did what many of the gentlemen who made their voyage from England couldn’t do - work. However, over time the North began to become very industry-based and urbanized, while the South remained agriculturally-based. The North began to view slavery as immoral, and many Northerners emancipated their slaves. Down South however, many masters still held onto their slaves since they needed to keep up with the work that was needed to be done. A big difference that occurred between the North and South as they began to draw apart, was the battle of whether or not the federal government had had authority over the states. The North believed that the federal government did had authority over
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Some wrote books (Document 4) against slavery and deemed it immoral and disgusting, and some made sure to teach the new generations in their schools that the Southerners were bad people and turned them against the South (Document 6). Now, if it’s a fight that the North is looking for, the South realizes that they don’t have much against the North. The North had so many more advantages over the South (Document 2). The North had over double the population and soldiers, over double the amount of factories to produce necessary goods and supplies in a war, and over double the amount of miles of railroad tracks to distribute those goods and supplies to soldiers in combat (Document 2). The only advantage that the South had was that they would be fighting a defensive war rather than an offensive war, which is easier to fight. Even though secession was a declaration of war in a sense, the South didn’t even need the North. Based off of money numbers, the South was where the real money was being made. Out of $279mil worth of produce being made in the United States, the South was responsible for producing $158 million of that (Document 11). The North was coming in with lower numbers. In addition, the South’s “exports were $185,000,000, leaving to the North less than $95,000,000,” (Document 11). The only reason why these numbers were so high for the South was due to their slaves,
Some wrote books (Document 4) against slavery and deemed it immoral and disgusting, and some made sure to teach the new generations in their schools that the Southerners were bad people and turned them against the South (Document 6). Now, if it’s a fight that the North is looking for, the South realizes that they don’t have much against the North. The North had so many more advantages over the South (Document 2). The North had over double the population and soldiers, over double the amount of factories to produce necessary goods and supplies in a war, and over double the amount of miles of railroad tracks to distribute those goods and supplies to soldiers in combat (Document 2). The only advantage that the South had was that they would be fighting a defensive war rather than an offensive war, which is easier to fight. Even though secession was a declaration of war in a sense, the South didn’t even need the North. Based off of money numbers, the South was where the real money was being made. Out of $279mil worth of produce being made in the United States, the South was responsible for producing $158 million of that (Document 11). The North was coming in with lower numbers. In addition, the South’s “exports were $185,000,000, leaving to the North less than $95,000,000,” (Document 11). The only reason why these numbers were so high for the South was due to their slaves,