Confederacy
Other forms: Confederacies
The Confederacy was the group of 11 states that seceded from the United States, sparking the Civil War, which lasted from 1861 to 1865.
With a lowercase c, confederacy means a united group. Use a capital C when referring specifically to the Confederacy, short for the Confederate States of America, the group of 11 Southern states that separated from and united against the Union between 1860 and 1861: Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Louisiana, Mississippi, South Carolina, Texas, Arkansas, North Carolina, Tennessee, and Virginia. The Confederacy was dissolved after the end of the Civil War in 1865. The Latin root, confoederare, means "unite by a league."
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the group of 11 Southern states that broke away from the United States in 1860–61, before the Civil Warsynonyms: Confederate States, Confederate States of America, Dixie, Dixieland, Southexample of:geographic area, geographic region, geographical area, geographical regiona demarcated area of the Earth
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