The Confederate States contained Texas, Louisiana, Arkansas, Tennessee, Mississippi, Alabama, Georgia, North and South Carolina, Virginia, and Florida. The Confederate States of America (CSA or C.S.) , commonly referred to as the Confederacy, was an unrecognized confederation of secessionist American state existing from 1861 to 1865. It was originally formed by seven slave states in the Lower South region of the United States whose regional economy was mostly dependent upon agriculture, particularly cotton, and a plantation system of production which in turn largely relied upon slave labor
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