Confederate States of America (1861 1865) Southern Medley
Official Discord server: Info: The Confederate States of America (CSA), commonly referred to as the Confederate States or CS) or the Confederacy, was an unrecognized republic, that warred against the United States during the American Civil War. Existing from 1861 to 1865, the Confederacy was originally formed by seven secessionist slaveholding statesSouth Carolina, Mississippi, Florida, Alabama, Georgia, Louisiana, and Texasin the Lower South region of the United States, whose economy was heavily dependent upon agriculture, particularly cotton, and a plantation system that relied upon the labor of AfricanAmerican slaves. Convinced that white supremacy and the institution of slavery were threatened by the November 1860 election of Republican candidate Abraham Lincoln to the U. S. presidency on a platform which opposed the expansion of slavery into the western territories, the Confederacy declared its secession in rebellion against the United States, with the loy
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