Yankeedom's Role In The Civil War

During the Revolutionary War, every nation was determined to keep its way of life and its principles. This dictated the nations’ responses to Britain, and later, it was the catalyst for the Civil War. Yankeedom was the first nation to rebel against Britain, desperate to preserve its principles of education, common good, and self-government. Tidewater joined the rebellion to protect the rights and privileges of the gentry and maintain control over their own government. The Midlands was the most neutral of the nations—its definitive pacifism prevented the nation from wanting to join in the rebellion, but this pacifism led to occupation by both British and American forces at different times. Greater Appalachia had no overall political unity during the war.

Greater Appalachia was concerned with any threat to its independence, regardless of where the threat came from. New Netherland was a loyalist hub and therefore not interested in fighting Britain, and many were afraid of the scrappy Yankee rebels. The Deep South was also highly loyalist because of their interest in keeping the slave trade afloat and belief in white supremacy, and planters were presented with two paths: retaining the slave trade and losing independence, or vice versa. Essentially, the nations wanted little more than to keep living the way they had been for generations. This shared desire was what compelled the nations to come together against Britain, but in just a few decades, it was what drove nations that won the war—Appalachia, Tidewater, Yankeedom, and the Deep