When Lincoln was elected as President, it was clear to slaveowners that there would be efforts to abolish slavery. White southerners who did not own slaves had nothing to lose, therefore southern slaveowners worried their loyalty would sway towards the anti-slavery movement. This would be detrimental to slaveowners as they would not only have Northerners trying to take away their slaves, but their fellow neighbours as well.
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"b. the right to raise children" was not an issue for women in the late 1800s, since this was the one thing that made did not often have a desire to do. Women's rights would not begin to take hold until the 1900s.
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Many maintain that the primary cause of the war was the Southern states' desire to preserve the institution of slavery. Others minimize slavery and point to other factors, such as taxation or the principle of States' Rights. Two major themes emerge in these documents: slavery and states' rights.
They found artifacts and writings
National Association of Colored Women's Club, temperance movement(prohibition of alcohol, women's rights for suffrage, etc.
