Introduction
Everywhere it was slavery, slaves and their masters, the civil war, the revolution and the union states and or the confederate. The confederate states of America were also known as the confederacy and these were the southern states which had seceded from the United States. The slavery history is part and parcel of the American history. Slaves worked for their masters and they were great contributors to the American economic prosperity during those times that is before the civil war slaves and they were working in cotton, sugar and tobacco plantations. To a greater extend slavery contributed to the civil and the formation of the confederacy. Morgan (2005) Says “Opposing slavery and its victims came to be a very common form of abolitionism” They provided cheap labor under grueling conditions. And after the Revolution and the Civil war many freed slaves were Americanized. This research paper analyzes how the confederate states were formed and the role they played in the history of the United States America.
Research questions
Which are these confederate states? How did they come up or the cause of the confederacy? What role did the confederate states play during the civil war in the United States?
Confederate States of America
The confederate states were seven in number which had declared independence from the United States and they never wanted to be part of the northern states. The seven states were Louisiana, South Carolina, Mississippi, Alabama, Texas and Florida which seceded before President Abraham Lincoln took office in 1861. The tug of war between the northern states and the southern ended up in an armed conflict which was the civil war that broke out in April 1861 because the northern states were not happy with what was going on in the southern states or the confederacy and they prepared their troops to fight for the rights of black slaves and the black people or the slaves worked hand in hand with the union or northern states’ troops. The Civil war ended after the troops of the southern states or the confederacy were subdued by the northern or federal troops. All states, that is, the northern states and the southern states once again were united to make the United States of America.
