What did the North fight for during the Civil War?

Answer 1

Many answers would be correct depending upon the views of the specific man, the state, the Confederacy.

Many men believed they were fighting for their right to remove themselves from the Federal government which they felt had become tyrannical. Some fought to defend their home and preserve their honor in face of an invading foe. Some men and certainly some states went to war only after Lincoln had issued a call for troops to invade the South and put down the rebellion. The Confederacy fought because it was in the best political and economic interests to remove itself from encumbrance of the North.

Answer 2

The south fought for there rights in beliefs more then fighting for slavary . Years before the Civil War broke out, Southern Senators and Congressmen were threatening secession due to slavery regulation. Violence was flaring all over the US, but it was not until the Kansas-Nebraska Act of 1954 that caused organized bodies of people to converge on one another and perform acts of violence. This Act provided the opportunity for states to claim for themselves whether or not they were "Free" or "Slave" states. As a result, when Kansas became a territory, the inhabitants would decide what was best for them. Although an overwhelming majority of Kansans agreed on a Free State, other Southern states sent militants to the territory to try to "persuade" them otherwise.

This was one of the first times the United States saw state funded guerillas encounter one another, and the ramifications were felt across the North and South. We were now entering a Civil War.

But there are other reasons to take into consideration. There was - and still is - a huge economic gap across the Mason - Dixon Line. The South was "under represented" in The House, and fought diligently to undermine this in The Senate.

And, possibly of supreme importance, was the difference in life style and culture between the two regions. The North (at least the Northeast) was predominantly industrial region where modernization, wages and free workers dominated their way of life. In the South, the culture was mostly untouched by modernity. Large swathes of land produced the world's largest cotton industry, and thus the agrarian life. The North threatened this rural style of living, and this caused a portion of farmers to be threatened.

Or, if you want an easier - if not false - way of stating why the South fought, refer to the last complete entry: "because they wanted to continue slavery."

Answer 3

To protect states rights (confederacy) and the southern culture way of life.

Answer 4

On the south the Confederate soldier, on the north, the Union soldier. Thus the Confederacy vs the Union.

Answer 5

The Civil War was a fight against the northern and the southern states in the U.S.

Answer 6

The United States of America fought the Confederate States of America (more commonly known as "the southern states").
The Confederate States of America (CSA)

Answer 7

for what they Believed in

Answer 8

to have free slave states