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The Confederate States of America (or The Confederacy).
The Confederacy was a group of eleven slave-states that broke away from the USA because Lincoln had been elected on a ticket of no new slave-states. This meant that they would always be outvoted in Congress, and new laws would favour the North.
The Confederacy was the group of Southern slave-states that broke away and declared themselves to be a separate nation (not recognised by any foreign countries, except Mexico). The Union was what was left of the USA. (The North) After the war, the states were re-united.
The Confederacy or The Confederate States of America
The confederacy was the Confederate States of America. It was a secessionist government that was created in 1861 and lasted until the end of the Civil War. It was composed of several Southern states.
Yes. Those two states were among the first to heed South Carolina's appeal to secede from the USA - it was the Deep South that broke away first.
They were called "Rebels" because the Confederacy chose to rebel against the Union, and broke away from it.
The states that broke away from Yugoslavia in the early 1990s were Bosnia-Herzegovina, Croatia, Macedonia, and Slovenia. The states that remain united were Serbia and Montenegro.
no the confederates are the south and the union is the north. Remember that South Carolina broke away from the Union. Then later when all the southerners broke away asap, they became known as the Confederacy (south) and what was left of the Union (north)
Five, if you count West Virginia as a state ( in 1860 it was still part of Virginia, but broke away from the Confederacy and joined the Union. In 1863, it became an offical US state). The slave states or Border States were Maryland, Delaware, Kentucky, Misssouri, and West Virginia
They broke away from his union of states.
Because Lincoln had won the 1860 election on a ticket of no new slave-states. So the South was doomed to be outvoted in Congress, which would pass laws that favoured the North at the expense of the South. They felt that their cotton wealth would be enough to support them if they broke away from the United States.