When the South separated or seceded from the Union, they attempted to make their own country and they named it "The Confederate states of America."-later in the Civil War to be known as the Confederates or Confederacy. The president of the US at the time, Abraham Lincoln, did not want to accept that the Union was dividing so he called this separation from the Union illegal rebellion against the government. The Confederates were often referred to as the insurgents.
Confederate States of America
The Confederate States of America.
Yes.
They were called the Confederation.
They called it "The Confederate States of America."
True
seceded from the union
There were 11 southern states that seceded from the Union. This took place at the beginning of the Civil War, and these states were called the Confederate States of America.
After the first seven states seceded, Lincoln called for 75,000 volunteers, and this provoked four more states (including Virginia) into seceding.
The Confederate States of America
they were the slaveholding states that seceded from the Union.
None of them did. There is a link below to a question about states that seceded in the 19th century.