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A group of Southern states who reckoned that their cotton revenues would be enough to support a new separate nation.

So they seceded from the USA and caled themselves the Confederate States of America, or 'the Confederacy'.

It drew up a new constitution, appointed a president (Jefferson Davis) and fought the North for four years until it simply ran out of manpower and supplies.

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