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Confederate States of America
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- has description | a une description
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The Confederate States of America, also known as the Confederacy, was an unrecognised breakaway republic in the Southern United States that existed from February 8, 1861, to May 9, 1865. The Confederacy comprised eleven U.S. states that declared secession from the United States over the issue of slavery, and subsequently fought against the Union during the American Civil War (1861-1865). Its founding ideology, as set out by Confederate Vice President Alexander H. Stephens in the Cornerstone Speech of 1861, was explicitly based upon the preservation of plantation slavery and white supremacy across the United States.
During the Civil War, the Confederacy actively tried to recruit foreign support from Britain and France. Although both countries remained officially neutral throughout the war, with neither formally recognising the breakaway republic, many people in Britain and France became entangled in the conflict in different forms, particularly given the importance of transatlantic trade and commerce in the mid-nineteenth century on both sides. Liverpool served as the unofficial European embassy of the Confederacy during the war, and several port cities in both Britain and France helped to build ships for the Confederate Navy. - established | établi
- 8 February 1861
- had duration | avait une durée
- 4 years, 2 months, 1 day
- has former or current location | a pour localisation ancienne ou actuelle
- United States of America
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