Confederate States of America

The Confederacy had three capitals. In the beginning it was Montgomery, Alabama. When Virginia seceded, it moved to Richmond. When the war was nearly over, it was moved into North Carolina's rural areas to hide from the advancing Union army.

The Confederacy was officially proclaimed in Montgomery Alabama in February of 1861. Several garrisoned forts in the newly created Confederacy were abandoned in February and March of that year primarily due to inablitiy of the Federal government to reinforce or supply them. With the innaugauration of Lincoln on March 4 1861 public pressure in the North demanded that some of these garrisons be held to make a show of force to the Seccesionists. These included Fort Sumter at the mouth of Charleston (SC) harbor, Fort Monroe at the mouth of Hampton Roads, and Fort Pickens at the mouth of Pensacola (FL) harbor. Efforts to supply Fort Sumter in April of 1861 were turned away and the fort was bombarded into surrender. This was the action that caused the Civil War. Fort Pickens and Fort Monroe stayed in Union hands throughout the war and another establishment, Fort Jefferson in the Dry Tortugas, was never attacked due to inaccessablity. Fort Sumter was returned to Federal control in February of 1865 after the Evacuation of Charleston.

to free all slaves from slavry in the south

It depends on whether it is genuine or not. There have been many reproductions printed over the years. Some are done as legitimate copies for illustration purposes and are indicated as such, while others are counterfeits. You'd need to have your bill examined in person by someone who specializes in old currency.

the belief that a compromise could be reached on slavery

England recognized the Confederate States as a separate country because of what we had done to them in the revolutionary war. There was the fear for awhile that England was even going to support the Confederate states, but luckily they never did.

The relationship between the U.S. and England/Britain has not always been as friendly as it is today.

Richmond, Virginia

The main goal of the Kentucky and Virginia Resolutions was to push for states' rights as opposed to deference to the federal government. The Kentucky and Virginia legislatures both argued that the states had the right to declare federal laws unconstitutional.

Reconstruction

Capturing Fort Sumter from the Union army.

less than 50 states in 1869

Jefferson Davis

John Tyler, the tenth president of the United States was the first and only former US president to serve as an official in the Confederate States government. He was a congressman in the Confederate House of Representatives.

Richmond, Virginia was the capital of the Confederate States of America.

The acctual dollars were printed on both sides. However close tot he end of the war the shortage of ink and papaer required the development of bank notes which were on ly printed in one color and only on one side of the paper.

The capital of the US. during the Civil War remained Washington DC, just as it was during the outset of the war. However, Abraham Lincoln had to declare martial law in Maryland to prevent the state from seceding and joining the Confederacy. That would have left his capital surrounded by hostile territory and probably would have forced the US. government to relocate.

slavery

What feature of a confederal system did the confederate States of America most wanted

If the North controlled the Mississippi River they could cut the Confederacy into two by cutting out Texas, LA, and AR. it also helped the North in the Anaconda plan because they can block the Mississippi river off and take control of the Confederate forts along the Mississippi.

Confederate currency was issued in many different forms by various states as well as the CSA government. You'd need to have your bill examined in person to get a reasonable estimate of its value.

NOTE: Confederate bills have been extensively copied for sale in gift shops and as promotional items. A lot of them were artificially aged and those printed before the Hobby Protection Act can be difficult to distinguish from genuine bills. There are many sites that list serial numbers and other characteristics to help ID these replicas.

Robert Toombs of Georgia was the first Secretary of State. Robert Hunter of Virginia replaced Toombs as Secretary of State on July 25, 1861. In March,1862, Judah Benjamin from Louisiana moved to Secretary of State from the War Department.

the Union and Confederacy institute drafts because men 18-35 had to serve for 3 yrs, later 17-50, and if he couldnt afford it, he would have to hire a substitute, to serve for him. then later if a man had 20+ slaves, he did not have to serve.

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The South was riding high economically due to a huge demand for cotton internationally. To meet the demand, there was an increasing need for large numbers of slaves. This income provided them with a desirable, aristocratic way of life they did not want to give up and felt would be destroyed without slavery.