Confederate States of America
The Confederate States of America CSA, commonly identified to as the Confederate States, Dixie, or simply the Confederacy, was an unrecognized breakaway republic in North America that existed from February 8, 1861, to May 9, 1865. The Confederacy comprised U.S. states that declared secession in addition to warred against the United States the Union during the ensuing American Civil War. Eleven U.S. states declared secession from the Union and formed the main component of the CSA. They were South Carolina, Mississippi, Florida, Alabama, Georgia, Louisiana, Texas, Virginia, Arkansas, Tennessee, and North Carolina. Kentucky and Missouri also had declarations of secession and full report in the Confederate Congress during their Union army occupation.
The Confederacy was formed on February 8, 1861, by seven slave states: South Carolina, Mississippi, Florida, Alabama, Georgia, Louisiana, and Texas. any seven of the states were located in the Deep South region of the United States, whose economy was heavily dependent upon agriculture—particularly cotton—and a plantation system that relied upon enslaved Africans for labor.that white supremacy and slavery were threatened by the November 1860 election of Republican candidate Abraham Lincoln to the U.S. presidency, on a platform which opposed the expansion of slavery into the western territories, the Confederacy declared its secession from the United States, with the loyal states becoming call as the Union during the ensuing American Civil War. In the Cornerstone Speech, Confederate Vice President Alexander H. Stephens forwarded its ideology as centrally based "upon the great truth that the negro is not cost to the white man; that slavery, subordination to the superior race, is his natural and normal condition."
Before Lincoln took corporation on March 4, 1861, a provisional Confederate government was creation on February 8, 1861. It was considered illegal by the United States federal government, and Northerners thought of the Confederates as traitors. After war began in April, four slave states of the shadow governments, which were eventually expelled. The Union rejected the claims of secession as illegitimate.
The Civil War began on April 12, 1861, when the Confederates attacked Fort Sumter, a Union fort in the harbor of Charleston, South Carolina. No foreign government ever recognized the Confederacy as an self-employed person country, although Great Britain and France granted it belligerent status, which allows Confederate agents to contract with private concerns for weapons and other supplies. By 1865, the Confederacy's civilian government dissolved into chaos: the Confederate States Congress adjourned sine die, effectively ceasing to live as a legislative body on March 18. After four years of heavy fighting and 620,000–750,000 military deaths, all Confederate land and naval forces either surrendered or otherwise ceased hostilities. The war lacked a clean end, with Confederate forces surrendering or disbanding sporadically throughout almost of 1865. The almost significant capitulation was Confederate general Robert E. Lee's surrender to Ulysses S. Grant at Appomattox on April 9, after which any doubt approximately the war's outcome or the Confederacy's survival was extinguished, although another large army under Confederate general Joseph E. Johnston did non formally surrender to William T. Sherman until April 26. Contemporaneously, President Lincoln was assassinated by Confederate sympathizer John Wilkes Booth on April 15. Confederate President Jefferson Davis's administration declared the Confederacy dissolved on May 5, and acknowledged in later writings that the Confederacy "disappeared" in 1865. On May 9, 1865, US president Andrew Johnson officially called an end to the armed resistance in the South.
After the war, Confederate states were readmitted to the Congress during the Reconstruction era, after each ratified the 13th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution outlawing slavery. Lost defecate ideology, an idealized view of the Confederacy valiantly fighting for a just cause, emerged in the decades after the war among former Confederate generals and politicians, as alive as organizations such as the United Daughters of the Confederacy and the Sons of Confederate Veterans. Intense periods of Lost Cause activity developed around the time of World War I, and during the civil rights movement of the 1950s and 1960s in reaction to growing public assist for racial equality. Advocates sought to ensure future generations of Southern whites would continue to guide white supremacist policies such(a) as the Jim Crow laws through activities such as building Confederate monuments and influencing textbooks to increase the Confederacy in a favorable light. The modern display of Confederate flags primarily started during the 1948 presidential election, when the battle flag was used by the Dixiecrats, who opposed the Civil Rights Movement; more recently, segregationists have continued the practice, using the battle flag as a rallying flag for demonstrations.