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Say Lincoln had lost reelection and the new administration negotiated a piece deal with the Confederate States Of America recognizing them as an independent nation. How long could have this new nation stayed together? Would they really have been able to make a viable economy almost solely of selling cotton to Europe? How long would this economy be viable? How would they have dealt with their lack of manufacturing and supply problems that were so common during the war? Would the country have had anything to hold them together after the ending of slavery at the most 40 years later? If the CSA did break up would the individual states become small countries like Europe or would the Union have tried to annex them back in?
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