Confederate Congress
Southern wartime assembly
The Confederate Congress was the legislative body of the Confederate States of America during the American Civil War (1861–1865).
It consisted of two houses modeled on the U.S.
Congress: a Senate and House of Representatives.
The Provisional Congress met first in Montgomery, Alabama, before the permanent Congress convened in Richmond, Virginia.
It passed legislation supporting the Confederate war effort and governing the secessionist states until the Confederacy's defeat.
- House of RepresentativesPopulation-based legislative chamber
- Jefferson DavisConfederacy's only president
- cabinet membersExecutive department leaders
- states' rightsProvincial governmental autonomy
- UnionNamed political entity
American Civil War · secession · Speaker of the House · legislative session · Senate · parliamentary procedure · bicameral legislature · Reconstruction · sectionalism · slavery · sovereignty · agrarian economy · bills · quorum · resolutions · committees · veto power · lost cause
Confederate CongressUnited States Congress
National legislative branch
U.S. Senate · U.S. House of Representatives · United States Senate · Radical Republicans · constitutional authority
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