Confederate States of America (Triumph of the Confederacy)



The Confederate States of America (CSA), commonly referred to as the Confederacy, is a government set up in 1861 by seven slave states (i.e. states which permitted slavery) of the Lower South that had declared their secession from the United States following the November 1860 election of Abraham Lincoln. The seven states created a "confederacy" in February 1861 before Lincoln took office in March. The US government (the Union) rejected secession and the Confederacy as illegal. The "War of Secession" began with the 1861 Confederate attack upon Fort Sumter, a fort in the Charleston, South Carolina, harbor, which was claimed by both sides. By 1865, after very heavy fighting, largely on Union soil, CSA forces were victorious after Britain was the first to recognise the CSA and assist against the Union in 1862..

History After the "War of Secession"
Establishing Washington, D.C. as the permanent capital of the Confederate States, the Confederacy began to industrialize their cities and towns mostly from the huge aid and economic resources of the British Empire. Using their significant aid and financial help as leverage, the British put pressure on the Confederate government to end slavery. Refusing the British demands at first, after all slavery was one of the main issues the "War of Secession" began, the Confederate government create the "Memphis Agreement."

This agreement established that slavery was allowed to continue in the Confederacy and her territories but slaves would have certain legal rights and that all slavery would be regulated by the government. Some of the major terms included, protection from physical abuse (for example whipping or beating), all slaves must be looked after and well fed, all business involving the selling of slaves would be regulated and inspected daily by the government and that slaves would be represented fairly and equally in a court of law. Still unsatisfied with the agreement, the British forced the Confederate government to establish a new term in the accords which would allow individuals who had been working as slaves for more than 15 years (the British originally wanted it to be shortened to 10 years but were refused) to be allowed freedom at their request.

Meanwhile, the Confederates had also drawn up a new constitution, establishing that states would have more say in their own internal running’s and promoted further decentralisation in the CSA. Taxes were reduced and  It also ended segregation of free black people and free white people and established the Oklahoma and Arizona territories (gained in the Treaty of Kingston) to be included as states in the new Union, under the names of Sequoyah and Socorro, respectively.

Administrative Divisons
The Confederacy is made up of 14 individual states. They are:

1. Capital District

2. Virginia

3. Tennessee

4. Florida

5. North Carolina

6. South Carolina

7. Georgia

8. Alabama

9. Arkansas

10. Mississippi

11. Louisiana

12. Texas

13. Sequoyah

14. Socorro