Give two reasons why some Southern generals, and even some Northern citizens, supported the Confederacy, despite opposing slavery?

Many people thought that if slavery was taken away it would ruin the country. It had become such a common thing and made many people money that a lot of people thought it would ruin the economy even though it was unfair to people of color.

Explanation:

"We have the wolf by the ears "and we can neither hold him, nor safely let him go. Justice is in one scale, and self-preservation in the other." - Thomas Jefferson

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answer: secession

secession, as it applies to the outbreak of the american civil war, comprises the series of events that began on december 20, 1860, and extended through june 8 of the next year when eleven states in the lower and upper south severed their ties with the union. the first seven seceding states of the lower south set up a provisional government at montgomery, alabama. after hostilities began at fort sumter in charleston harbor on april 12, 1861, the border states of virginia, arkansas, tennessee, and north carolina joined the new government, which then moved its capital to richmond, virginia. the union was thus divided approximately on geographic lines. twenty-one northern and border states retained the style and title of the united states, while the eleven slave states adopted the nomenclature of the confederate states of america.

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