Some volunteer others got drafted if you were 18 and met physical conditions you were required to go to war it angered many Americans because they were against the war and because 18 year old boys were being taken to fight
The North wanted the new states to be “free states.” Most northerners thought that slavery was wrong and many northern states had outlawed slavery. The South, however, wanted the new states to be “slave states.” Cotton, rice, and tobacco were very hard on the southern soil.
