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the election of president Abraham Lincoln
The election of Lincoln as a Republican president, moderate on the slavery issue.
To gather confederates is to bring others into your group or cause. In other words gathering others of like mind or opinion together under one cause. In this case the states that were seceeding from the Union were called the "Confederate" states. The Union being the "United States of America" the south chose the "Confederate States of America" to title in like kind.
Now there are no confederate states but there are some people who still have confederate beliefs.
The Confederates felt entitled to defend their borders. Congress did not recognise the Confederacy or its borders. War was on its way.
The Immediate Cause was Beauregard firing on Fort Sumter. The Intermediate Cause was the secession of the Confederate States. The Ultimate Cause was Slavery.
The Confederacy or The Confederate States of America
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 southern states were Confederate states. The northern states were part of the Union. :)
The United States divided and eventually started the Civil War. During the Civil War, more Americans died than in any other war.
Confederate States of America
The CSA is the abbreviation for the Confederate States of America.