AUHIS 251 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Nathan Bedford Forrest, William Tecumseh Sherman, Peace Movement
29 Sep 2018
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South carolina secession commissioners told other slave states and invite them to create a southern states country. 50 cents of every export dollar came from cotton southern states. The confederate states of america they met in montgomery because it was central. Wrote a new constitution essentially the same as the original, but protected the right to own slaves. The south was at a disadvantage to the north. The only thing they really had was cotton. Britain and france started to bring cotton production to the colonies instead of. Had a plantation and hundreds of slaves in mississippi. The guy who defeated the best of the confederate armies. Will become the first imperial wizard in kkk that was created after the war. Bloodiest event in us history to date. Northern victory important because britain and france were extremely close to recognizing the south as a true country. Gave lincoln a platform (the emancipation declaration)
