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The '''Confederate States of America''' (commonly referred to as The Confederacy, The South, the CSA, or simply as the Rebel States)were an alliance of 11 southern [[America]]n states who fought against the Union states in the [[American Civil War]] (1861 to 1865). The Confederate states seceded from the North for a number of reasons, including a Northern state favored balance of power in Congress, [[Free Trade]], and, after Lincoln's triumph in the [[1860 Presidential election]], the threat of radical [[abolitionism|abolitionists]] to end [[slavery]], which they viewed as a matter of [[states' rights]] that should not be enforced at the federal level.  Only four states where slavery was legal failed to secede -- [[Delaware]], [[Kentucky]], [[Maryland]] and [[Missouri]].  It was a near thing in the latter three states, which all wound up raising [[regiment|regiments]] for the Confederacy as well as the [[Union]], although not as an official act of their governments.

The '''Confederate States of America''' (commonly referred to as The Confederacy, The South, the CSA, or simply as the Rebel States) were an alliance of 11 southern [[America]]n states who fought against the Union states in the [[American Civil War]] (1861 to 1865). The Confederate states seceded from the North for a number of reasons, including a Northern state favored balance of power in Congress, [[Free Trade]], and, after Lincoln's triumph in the [[1860 Presidential election]], the threat of radical [[abolitionism|abolitionists]] to end [[slavery]], which they viewed as a matter of [[states' rights]] that should not be enforced at the federal level.  Only four states where slavery was legal failed to secede -- [[Delaware]], [[Kentucky]], [[Maryland]] and [[Missouri]].  It was a near thing in the latter three states, which all wound up raising [[regiment|regiments]] for the Confederacy as well as the [[Union]], although not as an official act of their governments.