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Confederate States of America formed
The states of the lower South established a new government, the Confederate States of America, and drafted a constitution in Montgomery, Alabama. Although modeled on the US Constitution, the Confederate document specifically referred to slavery, state sovereignty, and God. It explicitly guaranteed slavery in the states and territories but prohibited the international slave trade. It also limited the president to a single six-year term, gave the president a line-item veto, required a two-thirds vote of Congress to admit new states, and...
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Jefferson Davis chosen president of Confederate states
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Confederate capital established
Richmond, Virginia, was established as the capital of the Confederacy.
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Seceded states declared “in a state of insurrection”
Lincoln proclaimed inhabitants of Confederate states “in a state of insurrection against the United States, and that all commercial intercourse,” with certain exceptions, between loyal and rebellious states was unlawful.
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Robert Smalls commandeered Confederate steamer
Robert Smalls, a slave hired out to work aboard the Confederate steamship Planter, daringly commandeered the ship and delivered it to Union naval forces blockading Charleston harbor.
Glossary Term – Organization
Confederate States of America
The Confederate States of America was the government formed by the eleven Southern states that seceded from the Union in 1860 and 1861. Former US Senator Jefferson Davis served as the Confederacy’s president. The rebel government was dismantled with the South’s defeat and Jefferson’s capture in May 1865.
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Jefferson Davis
Jefferson Davis graduated from West Point in 1828 and served in Iowa under Colonel Zachary Taylor. He left the Army in June 1835 to marry Taylor’s daughter Sarah (against her father’s wishes) and begin a career as a planter in Mississippi, though Sarah soon died of malaria. Davis entered the US House of Representatives in 1845 but resigned the following year to join a Mississippi volunteer regiment (of which he was elected colonel) in the Mexican-American War. In Mexico, Davis once again served under Taylor. He was wounded in the heel while...