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May 17, 2024 · Confederate States of America, in the American Civil War, the government of 11 Southern states that seceded from the Union in 1860–61, carrying on all the affairs of a separate government and conducting a major war until defeated in the spring of 1865.
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Nov 9, 2009 · The Confederate States of America was a collection of 11 states that seceded from the United States in 1860 following the election of President Abraham Lincoln. Led by Jefferson Davis and existing ...
The Confederate States of America (CSA), commonly referred to as the Confederate States (C.S.), the Confederacy, or the South, was an unrecognized breakaway republic in the Southern United States that existed from February 8, 1861, to May 9, 1865.
The states of a confederation retain all the powers of an independent nation, such as the right to maintain a military force, print money, and make treaties with other national powers. The United States began its nationhood as a confederate state, under the Articles of Confederation.
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- South Carolina. Seceded from the Union: 1860 Readmitted to the Union: 1868. South Carolina was the largest slave state by percentage of people in slavery and had the strictest laws toward freeing slaves.
- Mississippi. Seceded from the Union: 1861 Readmitted to the Union: 1870. Mississippi was one of the largest slave states in the country prior to the Civil War with its economy based mainly on plantation agriculture.
- Florida. Seceded from the Union: 1861 Readmitted to the Union: 1868. On January 10, 1861, the Florida secession convention voted 62 to 7 to secede from the Union.
- Alabama. Seceded from the Union: 1861 Readmitted to the Union: 1868. The Alabama Constitution of 1861 was passed by its Secession Convention in January of that year.
The Confederacy comprised eleven U.S. states that declared secession and warred against the United States during the American Civil War. The states were South Carolina, Mississippi, Florida, Alabama, Georgia, Louisiana, Texas, Virginia, Arkansas, Tennessee, and North Carolina.
May 29, 2018 · CONFEDERATE STATES OF AMERICA, a breakaway slaveholding republic founded in February 1861 after the secession from the Union of the lower South states.
