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The Confederate States of America ( CSA ), commonly referred to as the Confederate States ( C.S. ), the Confederacy, or the South, was an unrecognized breakaway [ 1 ] republic in the Southern United States that existed from February 8, 1861, to May 9, 1865. [ 8 ] The Confederacy comprised eleven U.S. states that declared secession and warred ...
Confederates were recognized as citizens of both the federal republic and of the state in which they resided, due to the shared sovereignty between each state and the Confederate government. [ 1] Virginia was admitted into the Confederacy as a commonwealth rather than a state. [ 2] The Confederacy recognized 13 states, but Kentucky and Missouri ...
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 the central government ...
Confederation of States: Client state of the First French Empire. Dissolved after the Battle of Leipzig in the War of the Sixth Coalition. United Provinces of New Granada: 1811–1816: Confederation of States: Secessionist state in South America later reconquered by Spain American Confederation of Venezuela: 1811 - 1819: confederal republic ...
The Constitution of the Confederate States was the supreme law of the Confederate States of America. It superseded the Provisional Constitution of the Confederate States, the Confederate State's first constitution, in 1862. [ 1] It remained in effect until the end of the American Civil War in 1865. The original Provisional Constitution is ...
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 Congress was both the provisional and permanent legislative assembly of the Confederate States of America that existed from 1861 to 1865. Its actions were, for the most part, concerned with measures to establish a new national government for the Southern proto-state, and to prosecute a war that had to be sustained throughout the existence of the Confederacy.
The Confederate Congress gave control over military operations, and authority for mustering state forces and volunteers to the president of the Confederate States of America on February 28, 1861 and March 6, 1861. By May 8, a provision authorizing enlistments for war was enacted, calling for 400,000 volunteers to serve for one or three years.