The Richmond Agreement arose from the efforts of Confederate States President Jake Featherston to regain CS territories lost to the United States at the end of the Great War, specifically Sequoyah, Houston and Kentucky, and to facilitate the remilitarization of the Confederacy. After several months of Freedom Party-led riots in the three states, which in turn caused great political divisions in the United States, U.S. President Al Smith agreed to meet Featherston in Richmond in June 1940.