<span>They fought for respect. They were tired of being treated like second-class citizens and wanted to create a chance for equal treatment. They moved to show that they had the same loyalty, patriotism, and worthiness as the whites did during this time.</span>
Answer:
union of states under one national government
Split in 1860 over slavery.
Democrats in the north and south don't agree with each other. Democrats<span> from the Southern states wanted to preserve slavery in their states while Democrats from the Northern states were against slavery and expansion of slavery in the new territories.</span>
They called it the Island of Tears<span>.</span>
