What did the confederacy try to do before the civil war began?

a. take control of u. s. government property throughout the south
b. ask france and great britain to them in a war with the union
c. build forts along the ohio river in order to protect its border
d. require all men in the south to enlist in the confederate army

i was thinking b but i want to know for sure

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explanation:

the committees of correspondence were the american colonies’ means for maintaining communication lines in the years before the revolutionary war. in 1764, boston formed the earliest committee of correspondence to encourage opposition to britain’s stiffening of customs enforcement and prohibition of american paper money. the following year, new york formed a similar committee to keep the other colonies notified of its actions in resisting the stamp act. in 1773, the virginia house of burgesses proposed that each colonial legislature appoint a committee for intercolonial correspondence. the exchanges that followed built solidarity during the turbulent times and bring about the formation of the first continental congress in 1774.