Why do u think some of the slaveholding states decided not to join the confederacy

Because they thought they wouldn't have any power , compared to the free states. this caused political parties, civil wars, etc.

Iyou could write about is what u just wrote right that huge paragraph just take out the question and write to have your paper full the saratoga was running away from the spanish bc they had a kill in war that was supposed to be for the saratoga