Confederate States (Cherry, Plum, and Chrysanthemum)

The Confederate States of America is a federal republic situated in the northern part of American continent. It is commonly called the Confederate States (C.S. or C.S.A.). The country consisted of eight contiguous states and one territory which bordered with the United States of America to the north and northwest and Mexico to the south and southwest.

Formerly, all of C.S. states were being part of the United States until 1861. Tensions between slave and free states mounted with arguments about the relationship between the state and federal governments, as well as violent conflicts over the spread of slavery into new states. Abraham Lincoln, candidate of the largely antislavery Republican Party, was elected as the U.S. president in 1860. Before he took office, seven slave states declared their secession and formed the Confederate States of America. After the War of Secession, the Confederate States independence finally recognized by the United States in 1865.