Many Southern Whites had opposed Reconstruction from the start. They wanted to regain the wealth and power that they had before the Civil War. They also wanted to limit African-American's freedoms and rights. Some asked the courts to take back the land that had been given to freedmen.
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They were afraid that free African Americans could organize revolts much easier that those enslaved.
Southerners opposed the Wilmot Proviso. This is because the Wilmot Proviso established peace with Mexico, and the land that Mexico owned was in the South.
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Many Northerners were for the proclamation that ended slavery. However, there were Northerners who felt like Southerners and opposed it.
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Many white Southerners opposed the new Reconstruction governments because they enforced the newly-bestowed rights of blacks. Many Southerners also felt that the governments were hostile and gouged h hmm d g v h
Many southerners who favored abolition were often frightened into staying silent about their beliefs. William Lloyd Garrison is an example of someone who was a prominent abolitionist.
The southerners wanted slavery to end but northerners didn't want that
Southerners believed that abolition threatened their way of life because the economy in the south revolved around cotton plantations. These were mainly farmed by slaves and run by southern slave owners.
An antiabolitionist is a person who opposed the abolition of slavery.
The Northeners that opposed abolition were the people who profited from it, sach as the textile mill owners and merchants who relied on slave labor in the South for cotton.
The main reason that Southerners opposed the election of Abraham Lincoln was his opposition to the expansion of slavery.
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slavery was outlawed.
Southerners opposed the Wilmot Proviso. This is because the Wilmot Proviso established peace with Mexico, and the land that Mexico owned was in the South.