Why did the confederates dislike the union? did they want to conquer the union?

Question

please give me some reasons the why they didint like them and how they wanted to defeat them

Answer 1

Actually, the Union wanted to (and did) conquer the Confederacy.

The South felt disenfranchised from the Union (lack of representation, slavery issues, etc), and succeeded, forming the Confederate States of America. The Union didn't like that, and invaded the Confederacy to take it back, which they ultimately did.

Answer 2

The Morrill Tariffs triggered the secession of the Southern states.  The South had no desire to conquer the north; in fact, Southerners envisioned two republics coexisting peacefully as friendly neighbours.  It was the north which invaded the South and started the war.

However, the Tariffs were not the main issue, they were only the last straw.  The South, unlike the north, depended heavily on international trade.  The federal government made the overwhelming majority (nearly 85%) of its revenue off of taxing Southern trade, and with the tariffs being raised, it would cripple the Southern economy.  Moreover, the South saw the encroachment of the federal government upon our Constitutional liberties and the sovereignty of the states, so the Confederates believed themselves to be fighting not against the Constitution, but fighting to UPHOLD the Constitution against a runaway federal government that was coming to despise the limits the Constitution set on its power and authority.  This is why the Confederate States Constitution was nearly identical to the US Constitution.  

Answer 3

I think it's more like the Union didn't like the Confederates.  They attacked the Southern way life more than free the slaves.  

Answer 4

The confederates knew they couldn't win, the numbers the union had were vast compared to the confederates. As much as people may say freeing the slaves was the reason it actually didn't start the war nor was it the reason people fought in the war, the free the slaves reason was tagged on on the end to gain support.

The reason why the war started and the south separated from the union was because the south had huge trade agreements with Europe. The north wanted to taxed the south even further for this, the south disagreed and and thus separated, the north wouldn't have it, so a war was fought.

Lincoln also didn't initially want to end slavery in the south, he just didn't want it to spread to the north.

This is the only topic in our history classes that gets distorted in our public schools.

Answer 5

Beginning with the Tariff of Abomination, the North wanted to cripple the Southern economy.  Many southerners though this tariff was unjust since it prevented them form purchasing competitive European goods while making them dependent on the North.

It wasn't too long ago, before the Tariff of Abomination of 1828, that Americans fought a war over unjust taxation.