Confederacy
Dixie's wartime government
The Confederacy refers to the Confederate States of America, the eleven Southern states that seceded from the United States in 1860–1861, precipitating the Civil War.
The Confederacy was defeated in 1865.
References to the Confederacy often arise in discussions of slavery, Civil War memory, and Confederate symbols: His great-grandfather fought for the Confederacy. (Lowercase confederacy is any alliance or league.)
Pennsylvania battle site
- Antietam1862 Maryland engagement
- AppomattoxWar-ending Virginia town
- VicksburgCivil War siege site
- ShilohTennessee battlefield, 1862
Manassas · Chattanooga · Jefferson Davis · Robert E. Lee · Stonewall Jackson · Reconstruction · Emancipation Proclamation · Union blockade
Formal discontinuation of practice
- abolitionistOpponent of human bondage
- plantationLarge-scale farming operation
- enslavedMade someone's property
- chattelMovable personal property
manumission · Juneteenth · emancipation · cotton · overseer · auction block · bondage · servitude
State of being divided
- breakawaySudden separation from group
- withdrawalAct of taking away
- sovereigntySupreme independent authority
- states' rightsProvincial governmental autonomy
nullification · dissolution · partition · independence · self-determination · split · secessionist · ordinance
Gettysburg
Pennsylvania battle site
- Antietam1862 Maryland engagement
- AppomattoxWar-ending Virginia town
- VicksburgCivil War siege site
Shiloh · Manassas · Chattanooga · Jefferson Davis · Robert E. Lee · Stonewall Jackson · Reconstruction · Emancipation Proclamation · Union blockade · ironclad
abolition
Formal discontinuation of practice
- abolitionistOpponent of human bondage
- plantationLarge-scale farming operation
- enslavedMade someone's property
chattel · manumission · Juneteenth · emancipation · cotton · overseer · auction block · bondage · servitude · freedmen
disunion
State of being divided
- breakawaySudden separation from group
- withdrawalAct of taking away
- sovereigntySupreme independent authority
states' rights · nullification · dissolution · partition · independence · self-determination · split · secessionist · ordinance · ratification
- US HistoryAmerican Revolution, US history, Civil War, George Washington, Abraham Lincoln
- 1800s AmericaOregon Trail, Trail of Tears, transcontinental railroad, Civil War, Abraham Lincoln
- 1860sAbraham Lincoln, American Civil War, Appomattox, Emancipation Proclamation, Fort Sumter
- Deep SouthAlabama, Georgia, Louisiana, Mississippi River, Mississippi Delta
- Border StatesKentucky, Delaware, Missouri, Maryland, West Virginia
- ConfederacyJefferson Davis, Richmond, secession, Robert E. Lee, Stonewall Jackson
ConfederacyUnion
Named political entity
United States of America · United States · Yankees · Union Army · free states
Confederacyfederation
Union of semi-autonomous states
centralized government · empire · nation-state · monarchy · autocracy
Confederacyisolation
Complete separation from others
disunion · atomization · separateness · unity
- Confederate forcesSecessionist military units
- Confederate StatesSecessionist southern republic
- Confederate flagsEmblems of Southern secession
- Articles of ConfederationOriginal American governing charter
- Confederate ArmySecession states' military
- Iroquois ConfederacyNative American tribal league