USA trade intrests in the Mediterranean and the Atlantic were severely affected, and any effort to secure those intrests meant war. In addition, after the war, the world became polarised and the Soviets who were communists were aggressively expanding around the globe, which implied that American system of free trade and democracy was being threatened.
White Southerners defended the institution of slavery on a several fronts. They stated that it was necessary especially for the economy, They argued that slaves were the only ones who could do the needed work to grow tobacco (and later cotton). The Southerners also argued that there was no reason to cinsider that slavery was immoral. They appealed to three sources to support this claim. First, they looked to Biblical times. They pointed out that there was slavery in the Old Testament and the New Testament and that Jesus never spoke against the practice. Second, they looked at classical antiquity. They claimed that the Greeks and the Romans counted on slaves Finally, they looked to the time of the Founding Fathers. They stated that the people who wrote the Constitution also had slaves.
I believe it is <span>Frederick Douglass and Harriet Tubman</span>
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The south saw that the Tariff of 1828 would favor northern manufacturers because it helped them against foreign competitors. The south relied mostly on farming instead of manufacturing and the tariff would only increase prices of products they needed.
