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.
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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
People born in the Soviet Union before it broke up can call themselves Soviets if the want, but their nationality is that of the the country they were born in when it was part of the Soviet Union. For example, a 40-year-old born in the Ukraine state of the Soviet Union is Ukrainian, but free to call themself a Soviet.
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The Confederate States of America
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. The president at the time, Abe Lincon, did not want to accept that the Union was dividing so he called this separation from the Union illegal rebellion against the government. As Lincon sided with the Union-later known to be federals- this separation is what formed the two sides of the American Civil War.
The Northern states called themselves the Union and the Southern states named themselves the Confederacy (The Confederate States of America).
The northern states in the US Civil War called themselves "The Union."
Following US President Lincoln's call for 75, 000 new troops after the surrender of Fort Sumter, the following Southern States seceded from the Union. They were Virginia, North Carolina, Tennessee and Arkansas.
Following Lincoln's call for troops after the attack on Fort Sumter, four states initially seceded from the Union: South Carolina, Mississippi, Florida, and Alabama. They were later joined by Georgia, Louisiana, Texas, Virginia, Arkansas, Tennessee, and North Carolina, making a total of eleven states that seceded.
The delegates from the southern states that seceded from the Union in 1861 formed a new nation called the Confederate States of America (CSA). This new government was established in response to tensions over states' rights and slavery, and it operated under its own Constitution until the defeat of the Confederacy in 1865.
It was the Southern states that 'formed separately' by breaking away as the Confederacy. The North was what was left. They didn't call themselves the North. They called themselves the Union.
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
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