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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.

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Why did the confederacy want recongnition from other countries?

In order to get military aid from free countries abroad, who would break the blockade and import Southern cotton in exchange for weapons.


Who did the confederacy want to get on their side?

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.


What does South Carolina want other states to do?

It wanted other states to join it in seceding, and forming the Confederacy.


What does South Carolina want other Southern states to do?

It wanted other states to join it in seceding, and forming the Confederacy.


What step did Lincoln announce after the Battle of Antietam and what did this force foreign countries to do?

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.


Why did the south want to fight in Maryland of the Antietam war?

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.


Does Jefferson want war or peace?

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.


Does Jefferson Davis want war or peace?

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.


What does South Carolina want southern states to do?

It wanted other states to join it in seceding, and forming the Confederacy.


How did Jefferson Davis become president of 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.


Should the US police other countries?

no Do the people in those other countries want us there?


What was Washington's opinion of alliances with other countries?

George Washington didn't want anything to do with other countries.