The election of Abraham Lincoln and the secession crisis, Organization of the Confederate government, The Constitution of the Confederate States of America, The 1861 Confederate presidential election and the relocation of the Confederate capital, Foreign policy of the Confederate States of America, Pro and Con: Historic Statue Removal in the United States, https://www.britannica.com/topic/Confederate-States-of-America, GlobalSecurity.org - Confederate States of America - CSA, Confederate States of America - Children's Encyclopedia (Ages 8-11), Confederate States of America - Student Encyclopedia (Ages 11 and up), Fort Sumter and Fort Moultrie National Historical Park, flag of the Confederate States of America, United States: Missouri Compromise, Compromise of 1850, and Kansas-Nebraska Act, Martin Van Buren: 1848 U.S. presidential campaign poster, Confederate States of America; Jefferson Davis, Confederate States of America: Jefferson Davis. Organizing and providing relevant educational content, resources and information for students. The battlefield in Gone with the Wind (1939). In political science a confederation is a group of loosely linked states or regions. Let us know if you have suggestions to improve this article (requires login). The European Union (EU) is a supranational organization that, while resisting strict classification as either a confederation or a federation, has both confederal and federal aspects. Rather, in a confederation, for the center to decide upon any important issues, it would require an agreement of all its confederates first. The war, in this telling, was a struggle between white and Black Americans, not between the US and the rebel Confederacy. According to the Preamble, what are the basic functions of government? Likewise, the relationship between the member states and the general government, and the distribution of powers among them is highly variable. Andre Teague/Bristol Herald Courier via AP, The Confederate battleflag comes in waves, with a history that is still unfurling, racist ideas about black peoples inferiority, by the 1890s, they remade the meaning of the war, From Louisiana to Queensland: how American slave owners started again in Australia, I am not your nice 'Mammy': How racist stereotypes still impact women, relatively sympathetic stance on civil rights, flying the Confederate flag above its state Capitol. In a confederal system, power flows in the opposite directionfrom the state governments to the central government.