Southerners had a stronger fighting spirit than northerners because ? a. they were fighting for independence. b. they were fighting to end slavery. c. northerners had a smaller army. d. northerners did not care about the union.

The fighting spirit of the Southerners stemmed from the fact that they were A: fighting for independence. The same way that the Revolutionary War galvanized the population of the British Colonies in the 1770s, the Southern Secession was viewed as fighting for the Southern way of life.