Civil War: Difference Between The North And Southern States

The South leaned away from the North and their beliefs. They Union (the North) and Confederacy (the South) then raised their gun against each other, and this started what we all know today as the Civil War. This war lasted four years straight of brutal fighting.

Throughout the 19th century, the distinctions between the North and South in the United States were controversial. Prior to the Civil War, the North consisted of business owners and middle-class men. The South consisted of mostly farmers. The North was industrial, using railroads and factories. The South was agricultural, with mostly farms and plantations. The North paid their labor workers. The South used slaves. Not only did their opposing views on slavery and the separation of the two cultures, tensions arose that eventually led to one of the most gruesome wars in history.

One of the key factor contributing to the Civil War was States Rights. This refers to the struggle between federal government and individual states over political power. One side argued for greater state’s rights and those arguing felt that the Federal Government needed to have more control over states. The states felt they should have the right to decide if they were willing to accept certain federal acts. Meaning that states had the right to rule federal acts unconstitutional. The federal government denied states this right. When nullification would not work and states felts that they were no longer respected, they moved towards secession from the Union. The southern people were viewed as democratic and depended slaves for the plantations, they were devoted to agriculture and shipped cotton up north and favored low tariffs.

The Civil War was fought from 1861-1865.(Masur,L 2011) One of its main components was slavery. Many northern states fought to end slavery, while the southern states wished to fight to keep slavery and protect its rights.(civilwar.org) The Southern states economy was dependent on cotton which to them made slavery a necessity, while the North was becoming a more industrialized economy.(Masur,L 2011)The separation in economic needs helped to create a divide between the two sections.(ushistory.org) In addition to the economy, southern states pushed for nullification. They did not believe that the Federal Government should impose its will on the states. (Masur,L 2011 pg4) The election of Abraham Lincoln in 1860 did little to reassure the south that their rights to own slaves would be upheld and was basically a final straw for many southern states. (civilwar.org) There were a total of eleven states that would secede from the Union from 1860-1861 prior to the start of the Civil War. These states in order of secession were

In the early to mid 1800s, the north and south of the United States weren’t so united. The southern states, which included states such as Louisiana, Mississippi and Georgia, believed that slavery was an important factor in the development of plantations. The development of free states and slave states contributed to The Civil War in the way that they were the ones fighting the war. The free states wanted to keep all of the states together while the slave states wanted to make their own laws and rules. While arguing about whether or not to keep the states together as a whole, The Civil War broke out, but eventually the free states, or northerners, won.

But the underlying causes of it go much deeper: the North and the South represented two essentially different economic and social systems that could barely co-exist under one national government (Dew). Disputes over slavery reflect a deeper conflict between the two differing mindsets. While the North was building an industrialized economy of free citizens, the South relied on plantation farming, slavery being an integral part of it (American Civil War). Therefore, the secession movement of 1860 had deep cultural and social roots, which is why it led to such a massive

Before the Civil War, there was an issue that debated the future of slavery. The debated issue determined whether new states would be known as free-states or slave states. This debate lead to a secession (withdrawal) between eleven southern. This secession resulted in a war between the North and Western territories who wanted to preserve the Union and the South who wanted to create southern independence in new states under their own written constitution. People from the South wanted to expand slavery. They wanted to expand slavery that way they could use the slaves on large plantations and so that they

After the long battles that made up the infamous, Civil War, the North ended up taking the victory after the South surrendered. The North won the civil war with the help of having an advanced industrial economy rather than an environmental economy. The industrial economy brought in people because of the job opportunities and because of this the population of the North sky rocketed. Also, the agricultural or environmental economy in the south limited the army and were less advanced with technology. Their loss with technology helped the North since they did have the knowledge, they overpowered the South with that kind of economy.

For the South to be successful in winning independence against the North it had to depend largely on brilliant leadership and the morale of the people. The North has several advantages over the South. The North is well- known for their industrialized economy, exceptional railroad links and dominating the shipping industry. The South’s main source of income comes from agriculture such as cotton and tobacco. The North is significantly higher in population and outnumbers the South, four to one. One advantage the South has is they are defending their land and their way of life. The North is trying to keep the Union together and abolish slavery.

Even though the North and South were two very distinctly different opposing forces during the Civil War, there were some things both sides had in common. The Civil War was primarily fought to abolish slavery after Abraham Lincoln was elected president, but there were core differences between the North and South that caused them to fight for or against slavery. Things like climate, social equality, and the economy, were major factors in determining whether a state was part of the Confederacy or the Union. When the Confederate states seceded they kept many traits from the Union, so there were still some similarities such as technology and political systems. Ultimately, the small amount of similarities between the two sides were overpowered by differences, and led to the North’s victory of the Civil War.

Opposites can usually attract but in this case they repel each other. After the constitution was adopted by all of the states in 1789, the north and south had been growing. The south depend on slavery and the north were free states By 1861 there were differences between the north and the south that no compromise could bring the two together. And so a conflict started in our nation called the Civil War. Southern states seceded from the Union because of social and economic differences, political arguments, and slavery

1850’s southern and Northern states had different views of the union Northern didn’t want slave states but the Southern state wants slave states. The Northern and Southern States also fought over economics and social differences but Northern States got thing off of factories and Southern states had the slaves pick their crops and etc . And they fought over government power south thought that federal government should have more power , That's how the civil rights started and the southern states secede from the union .

Tensions began to grow between the North and the South over several issues as the United States was spreading to the west. Westward expansion only made matters worse because Southern states wanted slavery to spread. In comparison, more and more people in the North started to look down upon slavery and did not want it to expand westward. As tensions grew, some Southern states decided to secede from the United States and form their independent nation called the Confederate States of America (Hillstrom 3). These internal problems were all leading causes of the Civil War. The Civil War lasted from 1861 and ended in 1865, and resulted in more than 620,000 deaths, with millions of others severely wounded (“American Civil War” 1). During the Civil

The North ( Union) and the South( Confederacy) were different in many different ways prior to the Civil War. They were different regards to whether they had slaves, their ways of transportation, and the things they were able to produce/ the amount of exports.

The Civil War: A North and South Perspective The North and the South were most prevalent during some of America’s darkest times, this era, an era of Civil War. It was ushered on by the division caused by states who seceded from the Union in 1861.