During the US Civil War, the Southern States of the Confederacy, consisted of 11 slave states. Union States of Maryland, Missouri, Delaware and the city of Washington DC also had slaves until the 13th Amendment to the US Constitution abolished slavery in the United States. The 11 Southern States were:
1. Texas 2. Louisiana 3. Mississippi 4. Alabama 5. Florida 6. Georgia 7. Tennessee
8. South Carolina 9. North Carolina 10. Virginia 11. Arkansas
Prior to the US Civil War, Southern states were sometimes referred to as slave holding states. Technically and in reality, until the Civil War, all US states were called US states. This is not some way to marginalize the antebellum period of the US.
During the US Civil War, there were a number of people in either neutral or Union States and in Washington DC that favored the Confederate cause. States such as Maryland, a slave State, and in neutral Kentucky, also a slave State, had a sizable population that wished the Confederacy to succeed.
the political and legal status of the former Confederate states
The name for the South during the Civil War was the Confederate States of America... Some call it Dixie.
Should this question be referring to the United States before slavery was abolished in 1865, here are a few slave holding States that bordered on States were slavery was illegal: Slave State Maryland: borders with non slave States of: Pennsylvania and West Virginia; Slave State of Delaware bordering non slave States of New Jersey and Pennsylvania. This is only a short list of slave States bordering non slave States at the time of the US Civil War.
No. It was one of the buffer-states - slave-states that did not vote Confederate.
For the most part the war, farming, and slave trade.
The ones fighting for the South - the cotton-growing slave-states.
The war between the states was The American Civil War. It was fought from 1861 to 1865 because seven Southern slave states formed the Confederate States of America.
All the free states, plus four slave-states that did not vote Confederate and chose to stay loyal.
The Civil War was fought to establish that point.
It means the act that the Confederate slave states did when they left the Union. They Seceded.
Richmond was the capital of the Confederate States of America during the Civil War.
The Union in the American Civil War represented the free states (meaning slave-free states) plus five border slave states in the north of America. The Confederate States of America (the Confederacy) comprised the eleven southern slave states which had seceded from the United States of America.
Union fought to free slaves, Confederate fought to stay slave states.
Jefferson Davis served as President of the Confederate States throughout the Civil War.
Confederate States of America