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Basic forms of government. A confederation (also known as a confederacy or league) is a political union of sovereign states united for purposes of common action. [1] Usually created by a treaty, confederations of states tend to be established for dealing with critical issues, such as defence, foreign relations, internal trade or currency, with ...
List of Confederate states by date of admission to the Confederacy. Map of the Confederate States with names and borders of states. A Confederate state was a U.S. state that declared secession and joined the Confederate States of America during the American Civil War.
Confederations are voluntary associations of independent states that, to secure some common purpose, agree to certain limitations on their freedom of action and establish some joint machinery of consultation or deliberation.
Karim Shamsi-Basha/Alabama Bureau of Tourism & Travel. Between December 20, 1860, and February 1, 1861, six southern states declared their withdrawal ( secession) from the United States. On February 4, at Montgomery, Alabama, they organized a separate and independent government called the Confederate States of America.
The Confederation period was the era of the United States' history in the 1780s after the American Revolution and prior to the ratification of the United States Constitution. In 1781, the United States ratified the Articles of Confederation and Perpetual Union and prevailed in the Battle of Yorktown, the last major land battle between British ...
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.
A confederation (or confederacy) is a voluntary alliance of sovereign, independent states established to manage matters of common concern to the member states, such as defense.
