Revolution And The Cicil War

The basis for the Civil War was economic—slavery. The Southern states hoped to keep slavery alive because slaves helped to farmland and produce goods that were needed for the southerners to become prosperous and continue prosperity. Northerners had a different way of life than Southerners. They didn't have to rely on the slave trade. Although there were abolitionists in the North, many northerners didn't care about slavery one way or the other. Popular sovereignty, basically, allowed the Southern states to decide for themselves whether or not they would allow slavery.

An article printed in the Atlantic Monthly declared that nothing would please extremists in the South. Slavery had become dangerous. The editorial alluded to the thought that slavery was becoming as dangerous as the South became increasingly wealthy. However, Southerners were mainly angered by the high price of slaves. They equated cheap labor with money. They needed slaves to work the land—although many people believe that slavery would eventually have been eliminated—the Southerners wanted to do everything they could to keep the institution alive. Although land owners didn’t treat their slaves very well and did not pay much attention to them, slavery was a big industry in the South. 7 Planters felt that their land would be no good without slaves to work it. They knew that Europeans could not "rejuvenate" the harsh Southern soil. They were angered that they were not allowed to import further slaves from Africa and they resented the North for "interfering". In its succession letter to the Union, Georgia cited more than 10 years worth of problems with its non-slave holding states in America.

The English thought that the colonists were inferior ruffians. They thought that they were uncultured and barbaric. The felt that the colonists contributed nothing to the upper class and could never become a part of the upper class. There was a serious status division between the colonists and the British. Americans thought that the British were too pompous. While they were building a world in the rough, the British were degrading them. Although the American culture had been based on the English culture, the American people developed their own culture. Theoretically, they aspired to become wealthy like the English co

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