Prior to the outbreak of the US Civil War, the Confederacy initiated financial steps to help fund their anticipated war with the Union. In March of 1861, the Provisional Congress of the Confederacy authorized the issuance of treasury notes up to one million dollars. The Confederacy was also bolstered by the $536,000 taken from the former US Mint in New Orleans.
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Prior to the US Civil War, the Southern economy was primarily based on its cotton crop. This was a major plus for the entire US economy in 1860 for example. Cotton was shipped to Europe and also to Northern textile mills.
Prior to the US Civil War, the South already was at a disadvantage regarding its economic base as compared to the economic base of the more powerful Union industrial and agricultural elements. With that said, it was during the war that several key elements caused problems for the Confederacy. One was its production of too much cotton instead of food products that could be used by the Southern armies. Also, the decline in its railway system combined with the Union blockades were also factors to be considered. The other sometimes overlooked problem was the high inflation rates in the Confederate dollar.
Prior to the invention of railroads, most city people lived near where they worked.
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In the early part of the US Civil War, the attorney general for the Confederacy was Thomas Bragg. Prior to the secession, Bragg was never optimistic nor showed much enthusiasm for the rebellion. After the Confederate losses at forts Henry and Donalson, he regretted the rebellion.
They seceded from the Union and set up an independent federation of States: the Confederacy.
The Cherokee Nation had been badly mistreated by the US government prior to the US Civil War. They helped the Confederacy to a degree because they believed they might get a "better deal" with the Confederates.
what form of government did the southern states have during the civil war 1861-1865? idk i think it's a Confederacy NO IT IS A CONFEDERACY I GOT THIS!!
The state of South Carolina was the first state to leave the United States prior to the Civil War. They started the Confederacy.
The Confederacy was a group of southern states in the US which, prior to the Civil War, practiced slavery, and which attempted in the mid 19th century to secede from the US, but which were defeated in the resulting civil war (which also brought an end to the practice of legal slavery - some forms of illegal slavery still persist).
Just prior to the US Civil War, Thomas Jonathan Jackson was a mathematics professor at the Virginia Military Institute. He entered the Confederacy as a colonel. He later was to become a Civil War legend.
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All the states that formed the original confederacy seceded before the civil war, 11 in total: South Carolina Mississippi Alabama Florida Texas Arkansas Georgia North Carolina Tennessee Virginia Louisiana
No states joined the Confederacy during the month of March 1861. Seven states joined the Confederacy prior to March 1861 and four more after that.
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Who was the most Famous spokesman for Blacks prior to the Civil War?