(the) Confederacy

(the) Confederacy
the Confederacy UK [kənˈfed(ə)rəsi] US [kənˈfedərəsi]
in the American Civil War, the group of southern states that fought the northern states. The northern states were called the Union . http://www.macmillandictionary.com/med2cd/weblinks/confederacy.htm
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the Conˌfederate ˈStates 7 [Confederate States] noun plural (also the Confederacy)
the eleven southern states of the US which left the United States in 1860-1, starting the American Civil War
 
Culture:
The President of the Confederate States was Jefferson Davis and their capital city was first ↑Montgomery, ↑Alabama, and laterRichmond, ↑Virginia. The Confederate States, in their order of leaving the Union, were ↑South Carolina, ↑Mississippi, ↑Florida, Alabama, ↑Georgia, ↑Louisiana, ↑Texas, Virginia, ↑Arkansas, ↑Tennessee and ↑North Carolina.

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