What did poor southern people get out of civil war?

Question

I mean what did get if won the war, other than keep there racist point view and picking on the slaves. For there were few rich southern slave owners. So what else did fight war for?

Answer 1

A country united.. attempting to live up to it's creed.

Answer 2

South wanted to leave the union.

The "UNITED STATES" was a voluntary union, but Lincoln made it involuntary...In other words, if you dare want to leave the union, we go to war over it instead of allowing a peaceful break off. (which would have inevitable lead to a rejoining 20 years later anyway)

Slavery was a very small part of the war. Lincoln supported a constitutional amendment when running for president that would have made it legal to own slaves. This was ignored by the history books, and "saving the slaves" is portrayed as the only reason we killed what is equal today 9,000,000 Americans.

Saying that, what poor southerners got out of the civil war, was death and destruction, and a federal government saying "THIS IS NO LONGER A VOLUNTARY UNION, IF YOU TRY TO LEAVE, WE WILL KILL YOU".

*We could have spent 1/10th the cost of the war buying slaves from owners (as done in Europe) and freeing them simultaneously with banning slavery, AND saved what is the equivalent today 9 million American lives.

Answer 3

Your premise presupposes that everyone in the South was for the CSA's position. They weren't. Remember the Underground Railroad?

Other than that, it was all about the money. Just as outsourcing our labor to other countries saves big businesses 8.00 an hour in wages, on average, the slave trade provided cost-effective labor.

It doesn't matter what the poor and unemployed Americans think now, which shows how much it would have mattered then.  This is why many young and lower income Southerners defected to the Northern armies.

For those that stayed and supported it, it really was their moral belief that slavery was right. There were writings that abolition was 'atheistic,' and 'against God.'

Some thought they were doing a favor to the blacks. They believed that the blacks were a good but underdeveloped people. The slave trade was, in these peoples' misguided opinion, the only hope for the blacks to survive.

And to some, they also simply believed it was their right and duty to keep the 'inferior' blacks down.

This was the belief that drove Davis to form the CSA to begin with.

People have had some really stupid ideas throughout history.

Answer 4

I believe the war was about the south wanting to establish an independent economic path.

Answer 5

same as they had before ....... nothing......

Answer 6

Read up on the history of the civil war and how things were in the country ten years prior.  It was about a lot more than slavery, although that was the most sensational part of the civil war, it wasn't the only piece of the puzzle.