The most important economic development in the mid-19th-century south was the cotton gin.
The French and Indian War is the name for the North American branch of the larger conflict known as the 7-Years War.
On one side, was the British fighting with their colonists.
On the other was the French forces fighting with North American tribes who opposed the expansion of colonial territory into sovereign Indian land.
The union was in the north where all of the factories were. The confederacy did not have the supplies that the union did.