Confederate States of America
Speech parts
1. Confederate States of America - Noun
2. Confederate States of America - Proper noun
Meaning
the southern states that seceded from the United States in 1861
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Examples
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?
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.
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.
Coulter, The Confederate States of America p. 101. Virginia was practically promised as a condition of secession by Vice President Stephens.
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.
Coulter, "Confederate States of America", p. 22. The Texas delegation had four in the U.S. Congress, seven in the Montgomery Convention.