The Confederacy sought to gain the support of border states like Kentucky and Missouri, as well as foreign nations such as Britain and France. They hoped that these alliances would provide military support, economic assistance, and recognition of their sovereignty. The Confederacy believed that their cotton production could leverage trade relationships with these countries, especially in Europe, to secure their backing in the Civil War.
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)
In order to get military aid from free countries abroad, who would break the blockade and import Southern cotton in exchange for weapons.
The Confederacy sought to gain the support of border states like Kentucky and Missouri, as well as foreign nations such as Britain and France. They hoped that these alliances would provide military support, economic assistance, and recognition of their sovereignty. The Confederacy believed that their cotton production could leverage trade relationships with these countries, especially in Europe, to secure their backing in the Civil War.
It wanted other states to join it in seceding, and forming the Confederacy.
It wanted other states to join it in seceding, and forming the Confederacy.
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.
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.
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 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.
It wanted other states to join it in seceding, and forming the Confederacy.
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.
no Do the people in those other countries want us there?
George Washington didn't want anything to do with other countries.