Confederate States of America
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7.2
- proper noun
- /kənˈfɛdərɪt steɪts əv əˈmɛrɪkə/
:
Estados Confederados de América
- The Confederate States of America ended all but officially only when federal forces seized this last self-sufficient area at the junction of railroads and headwaters in the Deep South centered on the pro-Confederate manufacturing city of Macon.
Examples
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Many feared that we were crumbling from within and that the best years of the Confederate States of America were behind us.
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Six of these states then adopted a constitution and declared themselves to be a sovereign nation, the Confederate States of America.
Blog text (33) -
There was no period of lawlessness or a lack of government, either for the United States of America or for the Confederate States of America.
Blog text (33) -
MAP: Printed in February 1861, this map is one of the earliest known of the newly established Confederate States of America.
Academic text (2006) -
By and by, Louisiana, Texas, Virginia, Arkansas, North Carolina, and Tennessee joined them to form the Confederate States of America.
Academic text (2011) -
Jefferson Davis, president of the ill-fated Confederate States of America during the Civil War, is also an alumnus.
Blog text (11) -
And if the Federal capital fell into Southern hands, how could Britain, France, and the rest of the world continue to deny that the Confederate States of America were as true and genuine a nation as the United States?
Fiction book (1992) -
More than fancy clothes, ladies' shoes, perfumes, and wines, however, what the government of the Confederate States of America needed were uniforms, boots, medicine, weapons, and ammunition.
Academic text (2011) -
In February 1861, South Carolina and five other states announced that they were now the Confederate States of America.
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Davis was president of the Confederate States of America during the Civil War.
Synonyms
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7.7
A group of southern states that left the United States in 1861 and fought the Union
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7.5
The southern states of the United States that joined the Confederacy during the Civil War
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2.6
The group of southern U.S. states that left the United States to form the Confederacy in 1861
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7.5
A group of southern states that left the United States to form their own government from 1861 to 1865
The southern states of the United States that broke away during the Civil War
Surface Forms
Morphology
Confederate + state + of + America
The phrase is fully compositional: 'Confederate' describes a confederation or alliance, 'States' denotes political units, and 'of America' locates them in the United States. A B1 learner who knows these words can infer it refers to a group of American states joined as a confederation (though detailed historical facts like secession or the Civil War require extra background).
Etymology
Confederate States of America comes from confederate meaning 'joined together' and states meaning regions of a country. In 1861 several southern states 'left the United States' and formed their own government, so the name shows they were states joined as a separate nation.