What were the goals of the Confederacy at the beginning of the Civil War?
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They wanted to stop the north from abolishing slavery and at first only threatened to secceed.  You see in their eyes they thought slavery was vital and the only way their economy would make it being mostly agricultural unlike the north who was industralized and really many northerners didn't feel one way or the other about slavery unlike the south who had a reason to feel passionate about the topic
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According to   http://www.historyplace.com/civilwar/index.html \nOn "April 12, 1861 - At 4:30 a.m. Confederates under Gen. Pierre Beauregard open fire with 50 cannons upon Fort Sumter in Charleston, South Carolina. The Civil War begins"\nOn "April 18, 1865 - Confederate Gen. Joseph E. Johnston surrenders to Sherman near Durham in North Carolina."\nThere were 258,000 dead and 137,000+ wounded according to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Civil_War
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The North wanted to abolish slavery while the South wanted to expand slavery into the Northern terrritories.
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was it states rights...that is one in the books..thats not it i think it had alot to do with a power struggle.The north wanting to keep the south in its proper place. Which wud be wrong...i admit i missed something on the subject,i can find out.The north had a little known desire to not let the south persue an industial base, which was growing a  bit before the war broke out.Cotten was king n they knew it,with a strong industry the south could,and would i belief become dominant in the power sruggle.
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I would say the following (though not in order):\n\n1. The battle of Gettysburg (this was the turning point in the war... a point in which the South Suffered an incredible amount of losses... The south simply could not replenish the numbers)\n\n2. Sherman's March through the South (this dealt another devastating blow through the south... particularly on it's economy.. Sherman brought about Total War... )\n\n3. The Emanication Aproclomation... Lincoln freed the slaves... by doing so he helped to ensure that England and France would not come into the war to aid the Confederacy... this also made use of recruiting and utilizing freed slaves for military purposes... A move the South didn't make until it was much too late... \n\n4. the battle of Fort Sumter... this was the start of the war... when fighting first began... \n\n5. The location of Richmond... it's location was the end of the supply lines... everyone knew that losing Richmond was losing the war.
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During the Civil War.
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Sounds like homework... \nProbably should do some of you own thinking here... but here are a few ideas to get started with...\n(a) What sort of state were the former Confiderate states in? Had they used their manpower and economic resources to better economies or to fight the war?  What was their infrastructure like? Were there roads, towns, etc. left after Sherman's March to the Sea?  \n(b) What was the South's economic system like? With slaves freed, how was the economy (which required lots of manual labor on large plantations) going to function?  How were the white and black citizens in the south going to live together / work together after one class of people were literally property?\n\n(2) You might find starting information on Johnson's reconstruction plans here:\n(This is wikipedia, so you need better sources, but it's a start)http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reconstruction
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The main underlying cause for the Civil War was the freedom of states, and the rights of the states granted under the US Constitution, which by the way does not state that succession is illegal orr forbidden.  The powers of the Federal government are stated clearly in the Constitution, and any powers not specifically granted to the federal government are the responsibilities of the states.  Slavery did not become an issue until 1863 when the United States President Lincoln freed the slaves in a forgien country to keep France and Britian out of the war.  Odds are they would not have done anything to really help the South's war effort, but it was a good political move on Lincoln's behalf.
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When Abraham Lincoln, a known opponent of slavery, was elected president, the South Carolina legislature perceived a threat. Calling a state convention, the delegates voted to remove the state of South Carolina from the union known as the United States of America. The secession of South Carolina was followed by the secession of six more states -- Mississippi, Florida, Alabama, Georgia, Louisiana, and Texas -- and the threat of secession by four more -- Virginia, Arkansas, Tennessee, and North Carolina. These eleven states eventually formed the Confederate States of America. \n\nGo to this site. There is a map and everything :-)\nhttp://www.globalsecurity.org/military/ops/civil_war.htm
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CIVIL WAR\n\n•  1860-61: Causes and Goals \n\nWhat caused the Civil War was hatred of slavery and disgust with abolitionism, anger at the power of slaveowners and fear of slave insurrections, plus southern nationalism and northern nationalism, plus a myriad of slights and insults, fears and forebodings. Historians still are trying to sort out all the causes. In order to understand the military strategies employed, it is necessary to see how the causes leaders perceived were tied to the war aims they pursued. Journalist Edmund Stedman revealed a common sentiment in the North:  more…..\n\nhttp://tigger.uic.edu/~rjensen/cw-1.htm\n\nFrom April 1861 to April 1865, a brutal civil war was fought between the Confederate States of America and the United States of America. The American Civil War is one of the most researched conflicts in modern history, yet many people still desire more knowledge about it.\n\nhttp://ehistory.osu.edu/uscw/index.cfm\n\nLETTERS & DIARIES\n\nhttp://ehistory.osu.edu/uscw/library/letters/index.cfm\n\nWEB SITES ON THE CIVIL WAR AND\nRECONSTRUCTION\n\nA comprehensive list of links for you to explore.\n\nhttp://www.cumbavac.org/Civil_War_and_Reconstruction.htm\n\nThe American Civil War Homepage \n\nhttp://sunsite.utk.edu/civil-war/warweb.html\n\nThe American Civil War Homepage gathers together in one place hypertext links to the most useful identified electronic files about the American Civil War (1861-1865). \n\nResearch/Informational Sites\n\nhttp://www.historyplace.com/civilwar/index.html\n\nhttp://memory.loc.gov/ammem/ndlpcoop/nhihtml/cwnyhshome.html\n\nhttp://edtech.kennesaw.edu/web/civwar.html\n\nhttp://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/USAcivilwar.htm\n\nhttp://www.civilwarhome.com/indexcivilwarinfo.htm\n\nhttp://ap.grolier.com/article?assetid=0173280-0&templatename=/article/article.html\n\nhttp://www.civil-war.net/\n\nhttp://members.aol.com/teachernet/\n\nhttp://www.refdesk.com/facthist.html\n\nTHE UNITED STATES COLORED TROOPS IN THE CIVIL WAR\n\nhttp://www.coax.net/people/lwf/usct.htm\n\nCivil War Links\n\nBattles\n\nhttp://www.civilwarhome.com/cwinfo2.htm#Battles\n\nLinks to Other Civil War Sites\n\nhttp://www.smplanet.com/civilwar/civilwar.html#Links\n\nFour score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent, a new nation, conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.\n\nhttp://showcase.netins.net/web/creative/lincoln/speeches/gettysburg.htm\n\nhttp://www.loc.gov/exhibits/gadd/\n\nINTRODUCTION TO ABRAHAM LINCOLN'S GETTYSBURG ADDRESS.\n\nhttp://usinfo.state.gov/usa/infousa/facts/democrac/25.htm\n\nColored Troops in the American Civil War\n\n"Once let the black man get upon his person the brass letter, U.S., let him get an eagle on his button, and a musket on his shoulder and bullets in his pocket, there is no power on earth that can deny that he has earned the right to citizenship."\n\nhttp://www.americancivilwar.com/colored/colored_troops.html\n\nApproximately 180,000 African-Americans comprising 163 units served in the Union Army during the Civil War, and many more African-Americans served in the Union Navy. Both free Africans-Americans and runaway slaves joined the fight. On July 17, 1862, Congress passed two acts allowing the enlistment of African-Americans, but official enrollment occurred only after the September, 1862 issuance of the Emancipation Proclamation.\n\nhttp://www.americancivilwar.com/colored/histofcoloredtroops.html\n\nColored Troops Medal of Honor Winners\n\nWilliam Carney\nPowhatan Beaty\nAndrew Jackson Smith\nAlexander Kelly\nChristian Fleetwood\nThomas Hawkins\nJames Gardiner\n\nAbraham Lincoln (1809-1865) \n\nAbraham Lincoln was born Sunday, February 12, 1809, in a log cabin near Hodgenville, Kentucky. He was the son of Thomas and Nancy Hanks Lincoln, and he was named for his paternal grandfather. Thomas Lincoln was a carpenter and farmer. Both of Abraham's parents were members of a Baptist congregation
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It led to the end of the Civil War by forcing the industrial might of the north to be aligned against the seccessionists.  It was the provocation needed to bring the south back into the union fold.  Without Sumter, the seccession would've continued for a longer period than the four or five years that it did.\n\nYah, i get the 10 points, everyone else commented how it started the war, and not how it led to the end of the war.
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Southern Advantages (Northern Disadvantages)\n\nFighting a Defensive War\n\n    * To stand on the defensive meant that the North had to invade and carry the fight to the South. This allowed the South to prepare and receive the enemy, although Lee was not a passive man by any standards. \n\n    * The South did not have many advantages, but just like in the American Revolution, it's very difficult to conquer an area. Essentially the South only had to muster the will to keep fighting until the North felt like quitting. That didn't happen, but theoretically it could have. \n\n    * When Southerners said that they merely wanted to secede from the Union they gave themselves a military advantage. Thus the North had to attack. \n\n    * The geography of the South favored the defender over the attacker. In particular, most of the rivers in the South run east to west. Thus as Union forces attempted to move south they had to cross all the rivers and the Confederates could defend them. Also, the fact that the Cenfederacy was simply defending itself meant that the Northern forces had to invade and occupy virtually the entire South before they could claim victory. That was a monumental task. \n\nFighting Spirit\n\n    * The South had soldiers who were devoutly dedicated to preserving the Southland. \n\n    * The South were the ones who started this war, they want to finish it. They were the ones with a motive. The North just wants to put the country back together. \n\n    * The North included "border" states like Maryland which had large populations of Southern sympathizers. The North constantly had to fight to keep up popular support for the war. \n\n    * Motivation. The South was fighting to preserve their homes from an intruder. The North on the other hand was fighting to preserve the union. To abolish slavery was added later, and this was cold comfort to most Northerners who had never seen a slave before. \n\n    * The Southern population, at least the white population, were more united than that of the North. In the North there was always a substantial political sentiment, based on various reasons, for not fighting the war and letting the South go in peace. \n\n    * The North was the invader. When troops approached the end of their volunteer enlistment, they wanted to go home. The Southern troops were fighting for their style of life, so they hung in there. \n\nFighting on Their Own Soil\n\n    * They were fighting on mostly native territory, thus they were more familiar with the ground. \n\n    * The theater of war was primarily in the South which was its home territory. Obviously the theater of war was well known to the South. The North was in enemy territory and was unfamiliar with the terrain. \n\n    * Since the Southerners were defending their own soil they were intimately familiar with the territory while the Northerners had to rely on maps. \n\nMilitary Leadership\n\n    * The majority of the best leaders were Southern born. When the South left the Union, these soldiers went with their home states. \n\n    * Military leadership of the South consisted of many Mexican War veterans. The North had some experienced officers. However the North's leadership was inferior to the South. \n\n    * Throughout the Civil War, Lincoln was trying to find generals that could win. Many say Grant was the only good general the North had. \n\n    * Lee, Stonewall Jackson, Longstreet, Forest, Stuart, the list could continue. The South was blessed with officers who knew how to fight and make the best of bad situations. \n\n    * A big portion of the Union's finer officers were from the South, and were more loyal to their home states when faced with the choice. Robert E. Lee is of course the most notable example, and would have been the first choice to command the Army of the Potomac if he had remained in the Union army. \n\nMilitary Aptitude\n\n    * The average Southerner had at some point in his life hunted for food. Thi
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Two sides with guns\n\nthe two were the North and the South\n\nThe two were at war in what was called the Civil War\nor\nThe War of Norhern Agression\ndepending on where you live...\n\nGeneral concensus says that the reason for the war was the issue of slavery,\nOr\nStates Rights depending on where you live.
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All you have to do is study the Civil War... and to see which US States were Union States and which states were Rebel States.  As to %, there is no figures to answer your question... as to the intentions of individuals... that is impossible to answer at this late date...
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As has been noted, the South used several strategies to attempt to convince the North that preserving the Union just wasn't worth the cost. The South made invasions attempting to draw the remaining slave-holding 'Border States' (ie-Maryland, Missouri, Kentucky, the western territories). Later, after the offensive strategy had failed, the South attempted to use a primarily defensive strategy using interior lines of communication and trying to defend key areas. The Southern armies won many battles, but lost most of the campaigns because while their leaders had tactical brilliance they lacked overall strategic vision.\n\nThe Southern leadership constantly underestimated the Northern will to prosecute the war, and always overestimated their own ability to muddle through without a clear idea of how a nation is run. Yes, the South was starving but that was not because there was no food, it was because their money was no good (when General Sherman entered Georgia and General Sheridan entered the Shenandoah they not only found more food than they could eat, they found more food than they could BURN). They understood that their cotton monopoly was vital to the European economy, but then underestimated the European ability to find substitutes (subsidized cotton in Egypt, etc), while neglecting the overriding feelings against slavery throughout the world, so they allowed the blockade to become effective before they tried to export, and then their diplomacy was completely out of touch with world opinion.\n\nThe South had dashing generals, while the North had plodding but effective bureaucrats. The battle might have been won in the Sunken Road, but it was lost in the halls of power in Richmond.
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Jefferson Davis was first a U.S. Senator.  He became the only President of the Confederate States of America during the Civil War.
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The reason is "Propaganda". \n\nThere was NEVER any slave ships that flew the Confederate flag. In fact, the Confederacy outlawed the slave trade before the U.S. did. Also, the Confederacy didn't fight the war to maintain the institution of slavery. It fought to preserve States Rights and to fend off an illegal military invasion from the North.