If new Mexico had fallen to Confederate forces, what might have happened to the conferderate economy

If new Mexico had fallen to Confederate forces, conferderate economy might have improve because New Mexico have a lot of mineral resources. They are coal, copper, potash. gold, uranium, Petroleum, natural gas, copper, gold, silver, zinc, lead, and molybdenum and many more. Confederate economy might have transform from an agrarian-based economy to A well Robust economy.

Explanation:

The New Mexico campaign was a military operation of the Trans-Mississippi Theater of the American Civil War from February to April 1862 in which Confederate Brigadier General Henry Hopkins Sibley invaded the northern New Mexico Territory in an attempt to gain control of the Southwest, including the gold fields of Colorado and the ports of California.

If the Confederate had been successful, it would have aquired major source of gold and silver necessary to finance the war against The Union.

The Confederate States of America (1861-1865) started with an agrarian-based economy that relied heavily on slave-worked plantations for the production of cotton for export to Europe and to the northern US. If the Confederate had been able to take New Mexico which have abundant natural mineral resources, it's economy would have improved.

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