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*official name* –>
“the confederate states of america”
(abbreviated ‘CSA’ or ‘CS’)
commonly referred to as the Confederacy,
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(the Confederate States, was a breakaway country of 11 secessionist slave states existing from 1861 to 1865)
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(it was never formally recognized as an Independent country, although it achieved ‘belligerent status’ by Britain and France)
(the Confederacy was originally formed by seven states – South Carolina, Mississippi, Florida, Alabama, Georgia, Louisiana, and Texas – in the Lower South region of the United States whose regional economy was mostly dependent upon agriculture – particularly cotton – and a plantation system that relied upon the labor of African-American slaves)
(each state declared its secession from the United States following the November 1860 election of Republican candidate Abraham Lincoln to the U.S. presidency on a platform which opposed the expansion of slavery)
(a new Confederate government was established in February 1861 before Lincoln took office in March, which was considered illegal by the government of the United States)
(after the Civil War began in April, four slave states of the Upper South – Virginia, Arkansas, Tennessee, and North Carolina – also declared their secession and joined the Confederacy)
(the Confederacy later accepted Missouri and Kentucky as members, although neither officially declared secession nor were they ever largely controlled by Confederate forces; Confederate ‘shadow governments’ attempted to control the two states but were later exiled from them)
(the government of the United States (the Union) rejected the claims of secession and considered the Confederacy illegitimate)
(the Civil War began with the 12 april 1861, Confederate attack upon Fort Sumter, a Union fort in the harbor of Charleston, South Carolina)
(in spring 1865, after four years of heavy fighting which led to an estimated 620,000 military deaths, all the Confederate forces surrendered and the Confederacy dissolved)
(no foreign government officially recognized the Confederacy as an independent country, although Britain and France granted it ‘belligerent status’ which allowed Confederate agents to contract with private concerns for arms and other supplies)
(while the war lacked a formal end, nearly all Confederate forces had been forced into surrender or deliberately disbanded by the end of 1865, by which point the dwindling manpower and resources of the Confederacy were facing overwhelming odds)
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(‘jefferson davis’ later lamented that the ‘confederacy’ had “disappeared” in 1865)
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👈👈👈☜*“THE AMERICAN CIVIL WAR”* ☞ 👉👉👉
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*🌈✨ *TABLE OF CONTENTS* ✨🌷*
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🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥*we won the war* 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥