Confederate States

Speech parts

1. Confederate States - Noun

2. Confederate States - Proper noun

Meaning

the southern states that seceded from the United States in 1861

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Examples

There is a reason it used to be a crime in the Confederate states to teach a slave to read: Literacy is power. Matt Taibbi

Frank Abagnale could write a check on toilet paper, drawn on the Confederate States Treasury, sign it 'U. R. Hooked' and cash it at any bank in town, using a Hong Kong driver's license for identification. Frank Abagnale

It looked queer to me to see boxes labeled 'His Excellency, Jefferson Davis, President of the Confederate States of America'. Jefferson Davis

It is no wonder that Democratic Senator Jefferson Davis became the first and only president of the Confederate States of America. Who but a Democrat could be so devoted to slavery? Jefferson Davis

Defeat would blot the Confederate States of America from the face of the earth. Confederate victory would destroy the United States and create a precedent for further balkanization of the territory once governed under the Constitution of 1789. James M. McPherson

Following President Abraham Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation in 1862, which freed slaves from Confederate states, Hex surrendered to the Union Army, inadvertently revealing where his old unit was stationed. Source: Internet

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