USA HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -Confederate States of America, also called Confederacy, in the American Civil War, the government of 11 Southern states that seceded from the Union in 1860–61, carrying on all the affairs of a separate government and conducting a major war until defeated in the spring of 1865.

Detailed explanation-2: -The Confederacy included the states of Texas, Arkansas, Louisiana, Tennessee, Mississippi, Alabama, Georgia, Florida, South Carolina, North Carolina and Virginia. Jefferson Davis was their President. Maryland, Delaware, West Virginia, Kentucky and Missouri were called Border States. In 1865, the Union won the war.

Detailed explanation-3: -A confederacy is a political union. The most famous American confederacy consisted of the southern states who fought the northern states in the American Civil War. When you confederate-that is, join together for a common purpose-what you get is a confederacy.

Detailed explanation-4: -/kənˈfed.ɚ.ə.si/ [ C or U ] a situation in which states or people join together for a particular purpose, usually related to politics or trade, or a group formed like this. the Confederacy [ S ] the group of southern states in the American Civil War that fought to leave the United States and keep slavery.