Because Richmond was the Capital of the Confederacy
Because it has a weewee that it loves to show
The Northern slave-states of Kentucky and Missouri.
Yes. Slavery was a huge part of southern agricultural life. (I am not saying that it was right)
It didn't split the Confederacy in two. It was a punitive raid of destruction that simply helped to destroy the Southern economy and starve the Confederate armies in the field. Splitting the Confederacy in two is what Grant (and Sherman) achieved earlier in the Siege of Vicksburg, which ended with the liberation of the Mississippi.
In order to get military aid from free countries abroad, who would break the blockade and import Southern cotton in exchange for weapons.
It wanted other states to join it in seceding, and forming the Confederacy.
To conduct a successful war of invasion, in order to assert the viability of the Confederacy in the eyes of the British, who were close to granting recognition and sending military aid.
It wanted other states to join it in seceding, and forming the Confederacy.
After seceding, he would have been quite happy without a war, if Lincoln had granted official recognition to the Confederacy. But when Lincoln declared that he would defend Fort Sumter (which the Confederacy considered its own), and then called for new volunteer troops, Davis felt he had to mobilise.
After the Battle of Antietam, Lincoln announced the Emancipation Proclamation. This discouraged foreign governments from recognizing the Confederacy, because Lincoln had, with the proclamation, made the confederacy the poster child of slavery, and the people of the foreign countries that were considering recognizing the confederacy didn't want to be associated with the pro-slavery side of anything.
After seceding, he would have been quite happy without a war, if Lincoln had granted official recognition to the Confederacy. But when Lincoln declared that he would defend Fort Sumter (which the Confederacy considered its own), and then called for new volunteer troops, Davis felt he had to mobilise.
He didn't want to be. He was hoping to be General-in-Chief. But he was 'kicked upstairs', because he looked like the good face of slave-owning. (He treated his slaves so well, they didn't want their freedom.) The Confederate government thought this would encourage free nations abroad to grant recognition to the Confederacy and send military aid.
It wanted other states to join it in seceding, and forming the Confederacy.
no Do the people in those other countries want us there?
it is about other people who are in a high class get what they want be paying their way into it
If other countries want a loan they can get from other countries which are a part of the E.U.