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Granite relief carving at Stone Mountain, Georgia, depicting Confederate leaders Jefferson Davis, Robert E. Lee, and Thomas Stonewall Jackson on horseback. Map of the United States during the Civil War, color-coded to show Union free states, Union slave states, Confederate states that seceded before and after April 1861, and West Virginia, which joined the Union in 1863. The map also marks federal and unorganized Indian territories, with the Confederacy highlighted in green and border slave states in orange. Confederate Battle Flag Lithograph depicting George Washington standing with another man in a field, surrounded by enslaved African-American workers harvesting grain, with Mount Vernon visible in the background. reward for returning a fugitive slave slavery Auction of enslaved persons Missouri Compromise Three historical maps of the United States show how the extension of slavery into new territories changed with major compromises: the Missouri Compromise of 1820, the Compromise of 1850, and the Kansas-Nebraska Act of 1854. Each map uses color coding to indicate areas where slavery was prohibited, permitted, or left to territorial decision, highlighting shifting boundaries and key states or territories affected by each law. Martin Van Buren: 1848 U.S. presidential campaign poster
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Granite relief carving at Stone Mountain, Georgia, depicting Confederate leaders Jefferson Davis, Robert E. Lee, and Thomas Stonewall Jackson on horseback.
Stone Mountain, Georgia Granite carving of Confederate leaders Jefferson Davis, Robert E. Lee, and Thomas (“Stonewall”) Jackson, Stone Mountain, Georgia.

Confederate States of America

historical nation, North America
Also known as: C.S.A., Confederacy
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Confederate States of America, in the American Civil War, the government of 11 Southern states that seceded from the Union in 1860–61, carrying on all the affairs of a separate government and conducting a major war until defeated in the spring of 1865. What do you think? Explore the ProCon debate In the decades prior to 1860 there had been developing a steadily increasing bitterness between the Northern and Southern sections of the United States....

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