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nouna secret agreement between two or more people to perform an unlawful act
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nouna group of conspirators banded together to achieve some harmful or illegal purpose
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nounthe southern states that seceded from the United States in 1861
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nouna union of political organizations
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Definition that contains confederacy
- mo a midwestern state in central United States; a border state during the American Civil War, Missouri was admitted to the Confederacy without actually seceding from the Union
- creek any member of the Creek Confederacy (especially the Muskogee) formerly living in Georgia and Alabama but now chiefly in Oklahoma
- sherman United States general who was commander of all Union troops in the West; he captured Atlanta and led a destructive march to the sea that cut the Confederacy in two (1820-1891)
- allied united in a confederacy or league
- richmond capital of the state of Virginia located in the east central part of the state; was capital of the Confederacy during the American Civil War
- missouri a midwestern state in central United States; a border state during the American Civil War, Missouri was admitted to the Confederacy without actually seceding from the Union
- confederate united in a confederacy or league
- confederate of or having to do with the southern Confederacy during the American Civil War
- penobscot a member of the Algonquian people belonging to the Abnaki confederacy and living in the Penobscot valley in northern Maine
- vicksburg a town in western Mississippi on bluffs above the Mississippi River to the west of Jackson; focus of an important campaign during the American Civil War as the Union fought to control the Mississippi River and so to cut the Confederacy into two halves