If the North had lost the Civil War, would the South have attacked Mexico, & the North attack Canada?

Question

Would the CSA been satisifed with possibly what is now the southern halves of NM and AZ or would it have wanted more? Would the North taken out vengeance on the Britsh in Canada for their clandestine support of the CSA?

Answer 1

Doubt the south would have really wanted Mexico...they'd have needed some time to get over the war. They'd have probably insisted that the border states...Maryland, Missouri, Kentucky...be allowed to vote on whether to stay in the union or secede. (In a famous case, Lincoln jailed the entire Maryland legislature to prevent a secession vote...and refused to honor a "habeas corpus" writ because he knew that they'd vote overwhelmingly to secede.)
The north actually might have considered invading Canada. That was talked about and given a LOT of serious thought both before and after the Civil War.

Answer 2

nope, it wouldnt happen. If the North had lost the war against the South, what would u make u think they would take it on the largest army in the world. The south might had attacked Cuba, southerners always dreamed of taking Cuba to expand slavary. The attack on Mexico would happen because Maximillian(the mexican emperor) was supporting CSA after the civil war was war the deal was that CSA will have what is present day northern mexico n Maximillian would have the great confederate soldiers to put down rebels through out mexico. And the last and final possibility would be that the Union and Confederation will be splitting, especially the Union

Answer 3

Doubtful, to both possibilities. Both the USA and the CSA would be in the process of forming countries of their own; they couldn't afford to pick fights after that defeat. Consider that the South's attack on Mexico would have brought the wrath of France (who'd just installed the puppet emperor Maximillian) down on them, and the North's attack on Canada would bring the British Empire to bear. Perhaps the CSA would have eventually purchased land from Mexico (which it does in Harry Turtledove's alternate history novel "How Few Remain") and the USA might have done the same if Britain ever found Canada too expensive to maintain, but minus a revolution in mass communications and overall military technology, what you propose would be far-fetched in the extreme. But history's turned on far less grandiose notions . . .

Answer 4

Had the South won the Civil War, it was believed that Jefferson Davis, President of the Confederacy, had visions of a "Southern American Empire" where the U.S. Confederacy would form a union with Mexico and South America.

Answer 5

No because then the US would have been less than half as powerful, so the south could have attacked Mexico but it would have taken a very long time to win, or would have lost.

Answer 6

Tremendous questions. The total number of ifs that have to be satisfied is absolutely staggering. There is absolutely no way to know even one of your ifs let alone the fifteen or twenty that you ask us to process.

Why not take up a nice hobby like golf?

Answer 7

Sounds like a creative idea. I say write an analysis or prediction of what you might think would have happened and give it to your history teacher. He will probably give you extra credit and explain to you what errors or the likelyhood of your hypothesis.

Answer 8

You certainly are curious. Why don't you write a book answering all of your questions. Perhaps Jerry Bruckheimer will make it into a movie!

Answer 9

Woulda / coulda / shoulda.. What is IS. That's why its called History.

Answer 10

This is a rhetorical question, it didn't happen so there is no way of knowing.