Because even as Google cuts ties with ALEC, it continues to give large sums to climate change deniers in Congress -- nearly $700k since 2008, as chronicled in Forecast the Facts' recent Disrupt Denial report. More than anyone, it is the deniers in Congress who are holding our country back from acting on climate change.
Answer by TxRose555. Confidence votes 43. The Southerners knew that the North or the Union wanted to abolish slavery. With the growing friction between the South and the North, they threatened to secede if a Republican became president, which happened when Aberham Lincoln became president.The Southerners feared that their rich southern way of life would end.ith the growing friction between the South and the North, they threatened to secede if a Republican became president, which happened when Aberham Lincoln became president. The Southerners feared that their rich southern way of life would end.
The southern states included Alabama, Georgia, North and South Carolina. The northern states wanted to abolish slavery and therefore the slaves supported them. * The Yankees won the civil war and so slavery was abolished.Although slavery was abolished, black people were still treated badly.ost slave-owners were completely aware of this and they lived in fear of the African-Americans under their control. Not only did slave-owners expect slaves to run away, letters and diaries give strong evidence that slave-owners (and even non-slave-owners) in the south believed that rebellion was imminent.