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Why did the Union not want Britain to recognize the Confederacy?
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During the American Civil War, the British government refused to recognize the Confederacy due to long-established politico-diplomatic protocol. To most established world-powers, recognition of those claiming political independence required proofs of stability so as to avoid lending prestige to transitional or spurious revolutionaries. In addition, Great Britain had commercial connections with Northern merchants that it did not wish to put into jeopardy without good reason.
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∙ 10y agoThe Union did not want any country to recognize the Confederacy. And the Union did not recognize it as well. US President Lincoln considered the Southern States to be in rebellion against the United States Government. The Union did whatever it could to dissuade foreign governments to recognize the Confederacy as it would:
A. Give the Confederacy legitimacy in the eyes of the world; and
B. Once recognized as an independent country, the South would be in a better position to negotiate loans for food and war supplies and seek to form military alliances with itself.
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∙ 10y agoWhile much of the Aristocracy may have been pro southern (or at least less anti-southern than anti-northern) most of the working class was solidly against the South. Members of Parliament who wanted to be re elected would not have stood for it. The crushing Rebel defeat at Antietem sealed the deal.
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Why did the border states that bordered the union states and the confederacy states did not want to join the confederacy even though they practiced slavery?
because
Who was opposed to secession during the civil war?
The opposites of the Confederates (rebels) were the Yankees. (not the baseball team) The opposing sides were the Confederacy (Confederate States of America - the South) Union (United States of America - the North)
Did Robert E Lee leave the Union army to fight for the Confederacy?
Robert E. Lee was not in favor of session, but offered his official resignation from the Union army.soon after Virginia seceded to join the Confederacy. Many sources say Lincoln offered him command of the Federal army in April of 1861. Other sources say he was offered the command of a Union army. Either way he was loyal to his home State of Virginia. He began as a major general with the Confederacy. Lee and George B. McClellan both served under General Winfield Scott as engineer officers in the Mexican War. Scott certainly thought Lee was the best man to command the Federal armies. Scott had rated him as the best and bravest officer in the Mexican War.
What did the states that seceded from the Union call themselves?
When the South separated or seceded from the Union, they attempted to make their own country and they named it "The Confederate states of America."-later in the Civil War to be known as the Confederates or Confederacy. The president of the US at the time, Abraham Lincoln, did not want to accept that the Union was dividing so he called this separation from the Union illegal rebellion against the government. The Confederates were often referred to as the insurgents.
The act of union in 1707 united?
The act of Union was signed in 1800. It joined the Kingdoms of Great Britain and Ireland. After the Act of Union, Ireland and Britain combined to create what is now known as the United Kingdom. The act only joined Northern Ireland and Britain. The acts are still in position today although pre-1994, most Nationalists (Republic of Ireland) did not want the act as they wanted a united Ireland, cut off from the rest of the UK. Officially the act was called the Parliament Act of 1707.
Why did the Confederacy want recognition from other countries?
British textile manufacturers discovered new sources of cotton in Egypt and India. Pressure to recognize the Confederacy weakened. The United States wanted to prevent other countries like Great Britain from recognizing the Confederacy.
The civil war union want to preserve the union or destroy the confederacy?
Both. The Union wanted to preserve the country as a whole; they did not want the United States to split up. The Confederacy, however, wanted to separate from the United States, therefore, splitting up the country. So the Union wanted to destroy the confederacy to preserve the United States.
Why did the union want the confederacy split in two?
Because it has a weewee that it loves to show
Why did the border states that bordered the union states and the confederacy states did not want to join the confederacy even though they practiced slavery?
because
Was Robert E. Lee a citizen of the union or the confederacy?
He was on the Union side but then, when war came, he decided to go to the Confederacy because he didn't want to fight against the place he called home. He didn't even want war in the first place!
Why did the union want to capture Richmond Virginia?
Because Richmond was the capital of the Confederacy, and the seat of government.
Which region of Tennessee did not want to join the confederacy?
Eastern Tennessee - there was always a lot of pro-Union sentiment there.
What two rivers to the Union want to gain control of to split the Confederacy?
The Mississippi river and something else
What 2 foreign countries did confederate states want to help them?
The Confederacy sent ambassadors to both England and France in the hope that they would recognize them as a sovereign nation and lend aid to them.
What city on the Mississippi river did the us want to control of?
The Siege and Capture of Vicksburg gave the Union control of the Mississippi River, splitting the Confederacy in two.
Why would Lincoln free the slaves only in the confederacy and not in the union controlled border states?
Becuase he didn't want to lose the support of the border states.
Why did general lee want to surround Washington dc?
Lee knew that if he managed to surround Washington, D.C., he could cut off Union states from their capital and bring Maryland into the confederacy.
