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WHY?. Question: Why is the South Fighting?. Answer: States Rights ○ They felt ruled by the North (overpowered economically) ○ They volunteered to unite, they should be allowed to leave ○ Fighting to preserve their culture (including Slavery)

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  1. WHY?

  2. Question: Why is the South Fighting?

  3. Answer: States Rights ○ They felt ruled by the North (overpowered economically) ○ They volunteered to unite, they should be allowed to leave ○ Fighting to preserve their culture (including Slavery) ○ Protect Homes, Land (after the north calls troops; like Virginia)

  4. Why not just let them leave? Question: Why is the North fighting?

  5. Answer: Preserve the Union ○ Your country isn’t stable if sections can leave whenever they want. ○If there are two nations, they’d fight over runaways and western lands. ○ Some think slavery is a problem.

  6. I want my rights so go fly kites!

  7. Get out of our land…. Go join an 80’s rock hair band!

  8. Chamberlain's Charge at Little Round top Alabama Confederate States Calvary Unit Illinois infantry regimental flag 36-star American flag produced during the Civil War

  9. States' Rights, the philosophy that the federal government had limited power over the states. • Economics, the clash of policies between an industrial North and an agricultural South. • - Slavery, which underlay both of the above and went beyond them. Could the country survive if it allowed the enslavement of African Americans to continue? Regimental flag of the First Kansas Colored Infantry, the first African American regimentrecruited in the Northern states.

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