The
Confederate States of America (
CSA), commonly referred to as the
Confederate States (
CS) or the
Confederacy,
was a government set up in 1861 by seven slave states (i.e. states which permitted slavery) of the
Lower South that had declared their secession from the
United States following the November 1860 election of
Abraham Lincoln. Those seven states created a "confederacy" in February 1861 before Lincoln took office in March. After war began in April, four states of the
Upper South seceded, and were admitted. The Confederacy later accepted two additional states as members (Missouri and Kentucky) although neither officially declared secession nor was ever controlled by Confederate forces.
The United States government (the
Union) rejected secession and the Confederacy as illegal. The
American Civil War began with the 1861
Confederate attack upon Fort Sumter, a fort in the harbor of
Charleston, South Carolina which was claimed by both sides. By 1865, after very heavy fighting, largely on Confederate soil, CSA forces were defeated and the Confederacy collapsed. No foreign nation officially recognized the Confederacy as an independent country,
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