Confederate States of America (World of War)

The Confederate States of America was a confederacy of secessionist slave state created in 1861 in retaliation to Lincolns Social Reforms and was the second belligerent in the First American Civil War. It was formed by the slave states. Its economy was heavily based around the cotton industry which was dependent on African-American slave labour.

After Abraham Lincoln won the 1860 election tensions rose as Lincoln tried to introduce his new programme for social reform which was rejected by the slave states.