Constitution and the Civil War

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American History

 

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Dana E

 

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July 5, 2014

 

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The Constitution helped to divide the nation in another way as well, in the argument of state vs. national power. Jefferson Davis, and indeed most southerners, believed that is was "Strange, indeed,?(the Constitution has) proved unavailing to prevent the rise and growth in the Northern states of a political school which has persistently claimed that the government thus formed was not a compact between States, but was in effect a national government, set up above and over the States...
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The two effects are the most profound ones the Constitution had in starting the Civil War. Regional issues contributed to the beginning of the Civil War as well. The main divide in this area was the morals of slavery. Abolitionists, coming mostly from the North, such as William Lloyd Garrison believed that "Three millions of the American people (referring to slaves) are crushed under the American Union! They are held as slaves, trafficked as merchandise, registered as goods and chattels!" This is in start contrast to the Southern opinion which held that people of color were inferior to whites and should therefore do the heavy labor for the whites...
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