Question

What were the social differences between the North and the South during the civil war?

Answer 1

Answer:
Jefferson Davis said, " Another view that I hold is that ideological and moral conflicts have developed in the two sections. Northern liberals are essentially morally disgusted with what they believe to be an outmoded and barbarous system that is arbitrarily maintained by the South. This is causing the greatest resentment in the North at the present time. Labor Conflict: Northern farm and factory labor is voluntary. Our Southern plantation system rests solely on slave labor. White laborers in the South encounter competition from the slaves. The North is accusing us by saying that slave labor is degrading and unfair to free labor. We claim that Northern factory workers work longer and harder than our slaves and do not receive as much of the necessities of life as our slaves do."