Yuen-ming-yuen, the Round Bright Garden or Garden of Heaven.
There were several major factors that eventually hurt the Southern cause during the Civil War, but the most two prominent were that their economy depended almost entirely on slavery, and that the North far outnumbered them in terms of resources and manpower.
Answer: The balance of slave states and free states was kept equal.
Details: The Missouri Compromise (1820) admitted Missouri into the Union as a slave state with Maine being added as a free state at the same time, to keep the balance of slave and free states equal. It also prohibited any future slave states north of the latitude line 36 1/2 degrees north of the equator in territories of the Louisiana Purchase, with the exception of Missouri (north of that line) being admitted as a slave state.
Their husbands were off fighting the war