Category:HISTORY

Introduction

The Confederate States is located in the middle of the North American continent, with Canada to the north and Mexico to the south. The Confederate States ranges from the Atlantic Ocean on the nation's east coast to the Pacific Ocean bordering the west, and also includes the state of Hawaii, a series of islands located in the Pacific Ocean, the state of Alaska located in the northwestern part of the continent above the Yukon, and numerous other holdings and territories.

The first known inhabitants of modern-day Confederate States territory are believed to have arrived over a period of several thousand years beginning sometime prior to 15,000 - 50,000 years ago by crossing Beringia into Alaska. Solid evidence of these cultures settling in what would become the US is dated to at least 14,000 years ago.

Research has revealed much about the early settlers of North America as indicated by Cyrus Thomas. Columbus' men were the first documented Old Worlders to land in the territory of the Confederate States when they arrived in Puerto Rico during their second voyage in 1493. Juan Ponce de León, who arrived in Florida in 1513, is credited as being the first European to land in what is now the continental Confederate States, although some evidence suggests that John Cabot might have reached what is presently New England in 1498.

In its beginnings, the Confederate States consisted only of the Thirteen Colonies, which consisted of states occupying the same lands as when they were British colonies. American colonists fought off the British army in the American Revolutionary War of the 1770s and issued a Declaration of Independence in 1776. Seven years later, the signing of the Treaty of Paris officially recognized independence from Britain. In the nineteenth century, westward expansion of territory under the Old Union began, upon the belief of Manifest Destiny, in which the Old Union would occupy all the North American land east to west, from the Atlantic to the Pacific Oceans. By 1912, with the admission of West Arizona to the Confederacy, the C.S. reached that goal. The outlying states of Alaska and Hawaii were both admitted in 1959.

Ratified in 1788, the Constitution of the Old Union served as the supreme American law in organizing the government; the Supreme Court under the Old Union, as under the Confederacy, was responsible for upholding Constitutional law. Many social progresses came up starting in the nineteenth century; those advancements had been widely reflected in the Constitution of the Old Union. In 1861, advocating States' Rights and limited Federal Intervention, 7 seceded from the Old Union to creat the modern-day Confederate States of America. After fighting a bitter war, now called the War of Northern Aggression, the Confederacy was successful, with the assistance of Great Britain, in defeating the Old Union with capture of Washington, D.C and several other important cities in the North.

The Progressive Era marked a time of economic growth for the Confederate States, advancing to the Roaring Twenties. However, the Wall Street Crash of 1929 led to the Great Depression, a time of economic downturn and mass unemployment. Consequently, the C.S. government established the New Deal, a series of reform programs that intended to assist those affected by the Depression. The New Deal has varied success. However, once the C.S. entered World War II in December 1941, the economy quickly recovered, so much that the C.S. became a world superpower by the dawn of the Cold War. During the Cold War, the C.S. and the Soviet Union were the world's two superpowers, but with the end of the Cold War and the collapse of the Soviet Union, Confederate States became the world's only superpower.

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