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It didn't really choose to.

The Westminster parliament was planning to support the Confederates, but Lincoln headed-off this threat by issuing the Emancipation Proclamation (effective January 1863), turning the war into an official crusade against slavery.

After that, free nations abroad could not support the South without looking pro-slavery themselves.

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