Confederacy

= What would have happened if the Confederacy had won the Civil War? =


 * ==Created by: NP-SOTH, JW-SOTH, CrS-O S ==

**//Why would knowing what would have happened if the Confederacy had won the Civil War important to US History?//**
It is important for us to know because all history is important big or small. The Civil War should be remembered because it was the bloodiest war ever seen on North America.

Also Civil War was pretty much the first modern war thanks to the use of rail roads and better guns and weapons because of the rail road there was a lot more troop moment through it and the troops could communicate using the telegraph.

It also needs to be remembered in history because it shows that the country can be split from time to time and it can also dissagree on certain things that can split their country apart on issues like slavery or the new president. (JW-SOTH)

The Civil War is the bloodiest and most brutal war in all of North American history.

Lots of people think that it was only for resolving the [|slavery issue], and though slavery did play a big part in the Civil War, there was a more important issue: the Southern states (also known as the Confederacy) wanted to secede from the Union. The President [|Abraham Lincoln] decided to go into the Civil War in order to keep the Union together. [Note: to see causes of the war, click [|here] ]

Knowing all of the causes to the war is important, so that we can learn what else would have happened to our country later on if the Confederacy had won the Civil War and defeated the Union. So, it is important to know what would've happened in United States history if the Confederacy had defeated the Union because it would effect the size of our country, the boundaries, later conflicts, and many more issues that could arise. (NP-SOTH)

This is important to U.S. History because if the Confederacy would have won the war, there would be slaves everywhere. Also, the North and the South would be split up. (CrS-OS)

//**What would have happ**////**ened if the Confederacy had won the War?**//
 First and foremost, there would most likely be two different countries in what is now United States territory. The South had made it clear that they fully intended to secede from the Union. [See the [|link] that is attached to the image on the right.] All of those Southern states, beginning with South Carolina, had left the Union to form the Confederate States of America. Abraham Lincoln, the President at the time, had decided to go into Civil War to keep the United States of America as one strong country. Obviously, the Union had won the war. There are different reasons why the Union had won; it had had many [|advantages] over the Confederate armies.

There is a way that the Confederacy would've won the war: that is, if a European country had come in and assisted them in the war. The South had looked to [|Europe] (particularly France and Great Britain) to come into the war and help them fight against the Union. However, since it was not obvious that the Confederacy had seceded from the Union to form their own country, Europeans did not help the Confederates in the Civil War.

So, **if** France and/or England had come in, then the favor of the war would slide to the Southerners' hands. If this had happened, then very many things would have changed. If the Southerners had won the war, then slavery would have still continued within the Confederate States of America. Because Lincoln issued the [|Emancipation Proclamation], all Southern slaves left the plantations in the South, and some went to fight for the Union. Even though the Emancipation Proclamation had been issued, it would not have stopped the Confederacy from importing more slaves from Africa if the Union had lost the Civil War against the South. Having two different countries in what is now the United States would be difficult to live in. Imagine having "the Confederate States of America" as well as "the United States of America" in the same area. Boundaries would be effected. Maybe the United States of America would cut into Canada, while maybe the Confederate States of America would cut into modern-day Mexico.

Since there was so much controversy between the North and South before the Civil War, as well as tension after the war, then it is possible that either country would later conquer the other after the Confederacy seceded from the Union. (NP-SOTH)

 If the Confederacy had won the Civil War, slavery still would have carried on for a while before the Union would try to unite them again. Also, if the Confederacy had won, they might have tried to capture the Union. The Confederates also already had a Constitution, where if they had won they would have tried to create their country as their own away from jurisdiction from the Union. [|Confederate Constitution] (JW-SOTH) 

The [|Civil War] was one of the biggest and bloodiest wars in American History. The South fought for there freedom and the North fought for them to unite as one. One of the reasons the North and the south wanted to go to war was because the South wanted slavery and the North didn’t. The South claimed that the slaves were [|property], and they wouldn’t give up there property, but the North said the slaves were people just like us. Things would have been a lot different with slavery in the united states. If the Confederacy would have won the war, the two nations would have eventually merged into one, with a lot of grief in between. And in time the Union would have tried to unite them, and there would probably be another war between the North and the South. In conclusion the civil war was a big event in [|American History] and how things are today. Things would have been different if the civil war had changed in anyway. (CrS-OS)

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 * ===Sources on //Confederate Secession and Government//===
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