Why did the Confederacy move it's capital to Richmond?
486806
I believe it was due to the strong iron production in the area...to produce weapons. But contact the Museum of the Confederacy in Richmond, VA to for your best answers.
626719
No because the South was fighting for something we would now identify as individual nation states. If the South had won the war the country would have been divided and each and every southern state would have declared its Independence from everyone else.  The war was mostly about keeping the country together and was bolstered by the cause of freeing the slaves in the south.  Between the two the North had two very noble and just causes for victory over the South.
478893
Well, he moved the Capital of Byzantine Empire to Constantinople in order to control trade routes and water ways. Check out the link, it has a lot more information and important events in detail.
550227
1) Higher population\n2) Larger Navy\n3) More factories to produce goods to fuel the war effort\n4) Stranglehold on Southern exports
684196
they wanted to stop the expansion of slavery. this led 2 the confederacy 'cause the south "needed" their slaves. and that led 2 the Civil War. Lincoln did the Emancipation Proclamation to make this war officially about slavery. i have no internet sources about this, i'm just mad sick at history
157439
Because it was part of the SOUTH (1) During the division which led to the Civil War (it joined a newly created country called the Confederate States of America) and (2) It is part of the distinct culture which makes up the SOUTH.  Historically Virginia had much more in common with the states south and west of it than any state north of it.\n\nAnd besides it's not "up north".  Virginia's actually right in the middle as far as the Mexican/Canadian borders go.  But on the east coast, it's very much in the southern half of the coast.
305009
Slave owners in the south exercised even more control over their slaves because they were afraid of another uprising. \nIn the north, anti-slavery petitions were sent to Congress and, to appease the south, the Gag Rule was implemented.  That is, the petitions would be automatically tabled without being read.  All of served to widen the gap between north and south and fuel the fire.
193754
War is hell. Sherman marched through the South burning everything in his path. The concept means that the enemy then has less resources. The reason he did this was to punish the South and end the war.
894226
It was with regrets, Lee resigned his commission (after being offered the command of the union army) abandoned Arlington and moved to Richmond . Lee offered his services to the state of Virginia and was placed in command of all military forces from that state. He was assigned military adviser to President Jefferson Davis, were he had to coordinate numerous operations involving officers who were very sensitive about their command positions and obligations. In the spring of 1862, McClellan was poised to strike the city of Richmond. In a pitched battle at Seven Pines, General Joseph Johnston, commanding the Confederate forces, was seriously wounded. Lee replaced him.  I hope this answers your question.  Happy Holidays.  God Bless You and The Southern People.
864608
I can certainly see from the answers you've gotten not many people know the history of our great nation,that is most unfortunate.\nThe South did not break away from the union based on slavery it was a greater issue one of economics one that had to do with 'states rights' and with how much tariffs they could charge.\nIt all really began to boil over in the Kansas debates of 1848,and spread even into N.Y. \nRead crack a book some of you folks sometime read the 'war of the republic' 50 volume set written/published by the United States war Dept. just after the war.\nThe Northern States also had slavery before during and even after  Lincoln's Emancipation proclamation.\nIn fact the Northern rich states and the U.S. Flag flew over more slavery than the the Confederate 'battle flag',and certainly more so than the poor mostly ag Southern states could ever dream of having.\nThe South won virtually every major,and minor battle-the South chose to up until the end remain in the South however the North was starving the South,and it had to go north which was the demise of the The Army of Virginia.
996
Yes, if Lincoln wouldn't have re-inforced Ft. Sumter.  The fort was being turned over to the Confederacy before he did that.  The North could have withdrawn.  Pre-Civil War the Constitution was concidered a Social Compact.  The South had some legitament reasons for leaving.  The Missouri Comprimise was not a comprimise, making the South feel more threatened.  \n\nDuring the Presidential Campaign Lincoln was the only talking about Civil War.  If the South wanted Civil War it would have start a few years earlier when John Brown tried to take over that armory in Virgina
1187841
Yeah, you're right on the money.\n\nFrance and England had been at each other's throats for about a hundred and fifty years by the time of the Civil War.  They were the US and Russia of the eighteenth and nineteenth century.  As a united nation, the US was too powerful an economic force to be the puppet of either.  But as two nations, the US would not have been. \n\nThe Confederacy especially would have needed a trading partner with manufactured goods to offset its agrarian economy.   It really would have become a satelite state of France.\n\nYes, slavery was dying out and the south was the last place in the Western world to allow it.  But the realities of the time would have turned the Confederacy towards France and the North towards England.  It would have stopped westward expansion by the US.  It would have given the Japanese free reign in the Pacific.  Lord knows what the Germans would have done.\n\nTwenty or thirty years would have been too long to bring the Confederacy back to the fold.  1860 to 1890 was a vital time of nation-building, developments in manufacturing, railroad construction, steel and oil mining and more that could not have been done by two separate American nations.
637173
A group of people living by our modern laws and morality might have been able to avoid the American Civil War.  I'm not sure that the people of the day could have come up with a solution.  The South wanted to secede because what the federal government was doing was going to destroy their economy.  It did, but a successful secession would have destroyed both economies.
909895
The North considered it a victory because they defeated the confederate army in the field costing irreplaceable men and supplies.\n\nThe Confederate army considered it a victory because they thought they had fought to union army to a stand still since the union army did not follow them in their retreat back to the south.\n\nThe real reason the union army did not follow up, was because they had to split their forces after the battle.\n\nHalf the union army had to force march to New York City to put down pro-confederate riots and to keep New York from succeeding from the union.and pulling out of the war altogether
613033
As for North and South Dakota/Carolina, the answer has been given. The story with VA and WV is related to the issue of slavery and the period leading up to the American Civil War.\n\n(In short: What used to be "eastern Virginia" was mostly inhabited by slave-owning plantation holders. The part that is now West Virginia was inhabited by small farmers etc. The situation threatened to split the state apart, so the people voted to split it up in two states: WV for the Union, VA for the Confederacy.)
364677
during the civil war many of the stated split into two.  Half of the state joined the Union, and the other half the Confederacy.
634837
During the Civil War.