The South didn't have much industry, it was mainly a farming area. Their main export was cotton, I believe another top export was tobacco. The South didn't farm very much food, and with little industry they didn't have basic supplies like shoes. So the South needed to keep their ports open so they could receive food, shoes, and other important supplies.
As a side note: The North did a pretty good job of blocking off Southern ports so the South experienced much hardship during the war.
The Confederate States of America.
The union of Southern states during the US Civil War was named "The Confederate States of America".
The Southern states developed an agricultural based economy. This was due to the large amount of farming that was done.
Operational level
The Civil War was fought because a group of states in the southern US wanted to split away and form a new nation that would be run the way they wanted. The 11 Southern states the broke away (or seceded) were known as the Confederate States. The Union were the remaining states within the United States that fought to keep the southern states as part of the country.
emancipated negroes in the southern states.
The Southern States seceded from 1860-1865, during the course of the Civil War.
The southern region of the United States was known as Dixie during the American Civil War. The southern region includes 16 states and the weather is typically warm and humid during the summer.
They felt it was the states right.
They felt it was the states right.
The Confederacy
Atlanta
either 22 states or 24 states
The Confederate States of America.
The Confederate States of America
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a confederacy