Dbq North Vs South

He still did not think blacks should have the right to vote, hold political offices, or marry white people. He also still believed physical differences between the two races would prevent them from living together socially and politically (186). Lincoln was against whites benefitting from slave labor and did feel that blacks should be able to benefit from the fruits of their own labor. According to Dinesh D’Souza in her article “Abraham Lincoln: Tyrant, Hypocrite, or Consummate Statesman”, he was not, however, an abolitionist. Abolitionists wanted an immediate end to slavery and believed the rights of slaves should not be compromised and that they “had a duty to defend freedom, unreservedly, and careless of the consequences” (3).

Was the life in the North any different than the life in the South? In 1860, about 476,000 African Americans were free; 250,000 lived in the South and 221,000 lived in the North. That’s only a small amount compared to the entire black population. Obviously the lives in the North and in the South were extremely different; the North would have more opportunities than the South would, or would it? So, how free were the free blacks in the North? Well, in the North there were both restrictions and freedoms in all aspects of society; whether it is in political and economic freedoms or in social and religious freedoms.

Lincoln was not exactly opposed to slavery but he was not in favor of it. Lincoln had an idea that he would buy the slaves from there owners and set them free. The South did not want this because there economy depended on it. This would eventually lead to secession. The first state to secede the union was South Carolina. This increased conflicts even more between the war and south especially when the attack on Fort Sumter happened in 1861. Lincoln warned the South that if they did attack Fort Sumter there would be war and sure enough that is exactly what happened. On that day, April 12, 1861 the Civil War began.

In the late 1700s and early 1800s, the North and the South were as different as night and day. They seemed like separate countries, and for a brief period in history, that nearly became a reality. Both their physical differences and different belief systems became the cause of the Civil War between the two regions, with the South threatening to leave the Union. So what were the differences between these regions that led to these extreme measures? These differences included their geography and climate, their economy, and their transportation.

During the antebellum period, the Constitution had become a source of sectional discord between the North and the South. As it had once been framed as an instrument of national unity, the Constitution had developed different interpretations that provided the validity for ideas in both the North and South. The largest problem with the Constitution at this point, were the unaddressed issues that the Constitution never mentions. Different interpretations lead to different opinions whether something was legal. If the Constitution didn’t mention something, was it legal because it never said it wasn’t legal, or was it illegal because it was unconstitutional? The tensions between the groups of people who had differing ideas about the Constitution

Abraham Lincoln was opposed slavery before becoming a president. In his debate with Stephen Douglas, he defined slavery as morally wrong (P.392). Although he was against slavery, he was not an abolitionist; he believed that slavery should not spread into new territories, he was not determined to actually end slavery. When he became a president and the secession of Confederate States happened, he still held to the idea that he had before becoming president for two reasons: first he didn’t want the border slave states to join the Confederate, and second he was hoping the fact that he is not going to end slavery would tempt the Confederate States to return to the Union. As the war dragged on, unlike what he thought, lots of factors occurred that

Both the North and the South had advantages that would help them win battles in the Civil War. The North and the South had political, social, economic, and demographic properties that would either assist or weaken their ability to win the war.

While opposing slavery, Lincoln did not believe in giving citizenship rights to free blacks. He did not agree with Martin Van Buren when he wanted to give free blacks the right to vote in New York. In taking this stand, he was taking the side of the overwhelming majority of Illinois voters who had strong feelings of racism, and did not believe in giving blacks the regular perks of citizenship.

First, the South had a myriad of disadvantages when compared to the North is terms of a lack of resources i.e. people a five-to-two advantage favoring the North, military industrial complex also favoring the North, and draft animals, most of which were in the North. All these

According to Davis “Lincoln opposed slavery, but wouldn’t force the states where it existed to surrender their rights, he also stated that slavery would die gradually …” (Davis 214) Abraham Lincoln was also an opposition that wanted slavery to die because “all men are created equal,” (Davis 214) and should have his/her right to

Slavery divided the Nation. The South and the North viewed it in two very different ways. The South believed that slavery was a good thing. After all, slaves were “vital to the economy of the Southern half of the United States” (Bracken, Pg. 12). However, the North believed that slavery was wrong. The North wanted to get rid of slavery. However, neither side could get what they wanted without dividing the Nation.

The North during the Civil War had many advantages, one being a larger population. The North had over twice the amount of people than the South. That number of people helped the North’s army grow. The North had many people to replace wounded or killed soldiers in combat. The South did not have many people to replace wounded or killed soldiers.

There were various reasons as to why the South suffered a major downfall, and loss in the American Civil War. The South did have several advantages from its vast amount of land, to its trained soldiers who possessed many skills, to its knowledge of the land since it was familiar land to them. However, the North had various advantages from it advantages in both their amount in soldiers and resources, to the having great financial resources, to being higher than the South industrially, to having a strong navy, and to having more railroad systems and a greater leader. Both also had disadvantages, from the South having fewer factories, to having a smaller population compared to the North because almost one-third of the population was made up

Abraham Lincoln always demonstrated moral opposition to the acts of slavery both in public and private. He wanted to bring about the extinction of slavery through inhibiting its expansion into the USA territory through proposing the compensated emancipation during his early presidency. He supported the platform for the Republican Party of 1860 that believed slavery should not be allowed to expand into other territories in America (Sudbury, 2008). He believed that the widespread of slavery in the new western lands would inhibit the perspective of free labor on the America’s free soil and wanted peace to reign in the states through the end of slavery. Politically, Lincoln was attacked as an abolitionist but he did not consider himself as one. However, he believed that it was prudent to administer slow ending of the aspects of slavery by gradual emancipation and colonization by volunteering rather than the means of abolitionist that demanded the immediate end of slavery without compensating the owners (Zietlow,

     Lincoln believed that the Declaration of Independence contained rights for freedom and equality, and could not be taken away from anyone. Slavery, Harold Holzer said, “It is the eternal struggle between these two principles---right and wrong---throughout the world” (35). He believed these same principles, and knew that the citizens of the United States had their Constitutional right to own slaves. However, Lincoln wanted to show the people how cruel and evil slavery really is, and had strong morals which were totally against slavery. He stood by these morals throughout his life.