what confederacy means in the civil war?

Answer 1

The Confederate States of America (also referred to as the Confederacy, Confederate States, and CSA) was the government formed by eleven southern states of the USA between 1861 and 1865. These eleven states declared their secession from the United States. The United States of America ("The Union") held that secession was illegal, and refused to recognize the Confederacy.

The American Civil War broke out when Confederate batteries fired on the United States Army's Fort Sumter in Charleston, South Carolina, in April 1861. No European powers officially recognized the CSA but British commercial interests sold it warships and operated blockade runners to help supply it. All but two major battles took place in Confederate territory, as the CSA military was slowly overwhelmed by the much larger Union forces and choked by a naval blockade. When Robert E. Lee and the other Confederate generals surrendered their armies in the spring of 1865, the CSA collapsed. A difficult decade-long process of Reconstruction gave civil rights and the vote to the freedmen, and readmitted the states to Congress.

for more see:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C.S.A.:_The_Confederate_States_of_America
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Civil_War

Answer 2

In the American Civil War, it refered to the Confederate States of America, which were the southern states. A confederacy is a joining of people or groups for a cause.

Answer 3

Change doesn't equal liberalism. The confederacy weren't for change. They were against change. They wanted to cling to slavery and way of life that the majority of Americans didn't want for their country. They revolted and seceded, that would make them traitors, not liberals. And before people start throwing around how Lincoln was a Republican and Democrats were the south. You are right to a certain extent, but that doesn't mean the modern Republican party is the party of Lincoln, or that the modern Democratic party is the party of slaves. Both parties have gone through dramatic changes in their beliefs since then, and even before then. The modern Democratic party more closely resembles the old Republican party than people realize. Learn your history and don't make that foolish comparison.

Answer 4

The southern states seceded from the Union, wanting to maintain STATES rights, Vs. the FEDERAL government having the last say in every States' decisions. Southern States wanted to maintain Slavery, for one, while the Federal government Emancipated ALL Slaves throughout the Union. Thus con (against) federacy (federal government).

Answer 5

What civil war? A conferderation is a loosely bound group if independent entities.