1. Confederate States of America - Noun
2. Confederate States of America - Proper noun
the southern states that seceded from the United States in 1861
Source: WordNetIt 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
After the Confederate States of America were defeated in the American Civil War in 1865, many former slaveholders continued to run plantations by moving to Havana. Source: Internet
Coulter, The Confederate States of America p. 101. Virginia was practically promised as a condition of secession by Vice President Stephens. Source: Internet
An elected convention voted to secede from the United States on February 1, 1861, and Texas joined the Confederate States of America on March 2, 1861. Source: Internet
Coulter, "Confederate States of America", p. 22. The Texas delegation had four in the U.S. Congress, seven in the Montgomery Convention. Source: Internet