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When the southern US States seceded from the United States of America in 1860, the government they formed was called the Confederate States of America
The new nation formed by the southern seceding states was called the Confederate States of America.
The Confederate States of America or the CSA.
Jefferson Davis
The seceding states called themselves The Confederate States of America, and Jefferson Davis was their president. By the way, it's best to actually study instead of just going to Answers.com
In 1860 and 1861, eleven states formed a separate nation called the Confederate States of America. This is a forerunner to the Civil War in which the Confederate States of America fought against the Union of States.
Texas is the only five letter state among the seceding states.
Racial Republicans
"Seceding from the union" refers to the actions of the states that left the United States to form the Confederate States of America in the American Civil War.
his grant of amnesty to former Confederate soldiers
The origin of the Confederate States of America is the year 1860 when South Carolina seceded from the Union. However it did not truly become a nation until all the seceding states were bound together in 1861.
The former Confederate States had never actually left the Union.