Because the Union had declared a reason that fighting the South was for the ending of slavery. This stopped the French and British from helping the South because they didnt want to fight in another nation's war for moral reasons or for the ending of slavery.
no the union are free ,confederate are agents slavery Not true. Md,De,Mo,Ky were Union states that had slavery. In the middle of the war,WVa became a Union state (June '63) and also allowed slavery. All Confederates had slavery.
Most people mistaking believe that the Union declared war on the South because of slavery. This was not true until the war was ending, and the Union thought that slavery was the South's inspiration to fight. The North declared war on the South to preserve the Union.
I think you meant slavery? The American Civil War was always about preserving the Union. The South wanted a separate state with slavery, the north wanted a union without slavery.
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Daniel Webster thought that saving the Union was more important than ending slavery. Webster was a senator from Massachusetts.
Daniel Webster
Daniel Webster
in the Gettysburg Address, saving the union is the purpose of the war
Because Lincon wanted to make sure that the union was strong before he did anything else.
The North's objective was, first, to restore the Union. After Antietam when Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation, ending slavery arose as an important secondary goal.
Although both fronts were important to President Lincoln, ending slavery was more important to him personally than preserving the union.
The union of slavery and cotton were able to impede the South's development into two important areas, the industries and railroad. The union slavery and cotton were also central to the South's prosperity.
The anti-war Democrats ('Copperheads')
The Union won, the Confederates lost. Slavery was later abolished.
Webster opposed slavery, but he believed that the preservation of the Union was most important.
Because Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation after this battle the focus of the war was shifted to ending slavery.