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(The other is the Kingdom of Nri.) Dzików Confederation: 1734–1736: Military Confederation: Sikh Confederacy: 1748–1799: Confederation of States: Confederation of 12 Sikh states. Heshun Confederation: 1776–1839: Confederation of States: Confederation of Kongsi republics in Borneo. United States of America: 1781–1789: Confederation of ...
The Confederacy actively used the army to arrest people suspected of loyalty to the United States. Historian Mark Neely found 4,108 names of men arrested and estimated a much larger total. [208] The Confederacy arrested pro-Union civilians in the South at about the same rate as the Union arrested pro-Confederate civilians in the North. [209]
Old Swiss Confederacy, a confederation that was the predecessor of the current Swiss state; Three Confederate States of Gojoseon, states thought to have existed in present day Korea during the Bronze Age; Northwestern Confederacy, a group of Native American tribes in the Great Lakes region that united after the American revolution
Map of the Confederate States with names and borders of states A Confederate state was a U.S. state that declared secession and joined the Confederate States of America during the American Civil War. The Confederacy recognized them as constituent entities that shared their sovereignty with the Confederate government. Confederates were recognized as citizens of both the federal republic and of ...
A confederation (also known as a confederacy or league) is a political union of sovereign states united for purposes of common action. [1] Usually created by a treaty, confederations of states tend to be established for dealing with critical issues, such as defence, foreign relations, internal trade or currency, with the central government being required to provide support for all its members.
People from the Confederate States of America (14 C, 21 P) Politics of the Confederate States of America (2 C, 2 P) Prisoners and detainees of the Confederate States of America (3 C, 3 P)
Proposed state or autonomous region: Confederate States of America or Southern United States or Dixie or Dixieland. Advocacy groups: League of the South, [89] [90] [91] other neo-Confederate and non-confederate southern separatist groups. Deseret [92] Ethnic group: Mormons; Proposed state or autonomous region: Deseret
[25] [26] [27] [better source needed] The name has been criticized by historians such as James M. McPherson, [28] as the Confederacy "took the initiative by seceding in defiance of an election of a president by a constitutional majority" [28] and "started the war by firing on the American flag". [28] Since the free states and most non-Yankee ...