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Confederacy
Confederacy meaning
An alliance. | A state where the sovereign constituent units delegate their authority to the centre. As opposed to a federation, where the central and regional governments are each equal and sovereign in their own sphere. | Specifically, an instance of a decentralized governing structure among the indigenous peoples of North America.
Example sentences (20)
Someone teaching a lesson about the Confederacy, for example, might have family members still sympathetic to the Confederacy—or she herself might be.
The Kree were the first members of the Confederacy to be introduced in season 5. It’s worth noting, though, that the entire Kree Empire is not part of the Confederacy; rather, only the ancient ancestral is.
Given the Confederacy's limited resources compared with the Union, Davis decided that the Confederacy would have to fight mostly on the strategic defensive.
Support for the Confederacy was perhaps weakest in Texas; Claude Elliott estimates that only a third of the population actively supported the Confederacy.
The Confederacy stated that the black U.S. soldiers captured while fighting against the Confederacy would be tried as slave insurrectionists in civil courts-a capital offense with automatic sentence of death.
The new editorial board supported an immediate peace between the Union and the Confederacy in the Civil War in the United States with slavery left intact in the Confederacy.
And to repeat — because apparently we have to repeat it — when you celebrate the Confederacy, you’re celebrating people who waged war against the United States of America so they could keep slavery in place.
Beebe said it tells the story of the native six-nation confederacy based in the northeast.
Chief Leonard Standingontheroad was officially sworn in as the Grand Chief of the Confederacy of Treaty Six First Nations in a ceremony Friday Jan.
Edward Douglass White fought for the Confederacy and took up arms in a violent insurrection against Reconstruction.
He achieved his political rise in South Carolina, once the cradle of the Confederacy.
His audience includes a certified “Daughter of the Confederacy” and one of the more liberal members of the Louisiana State Legislature.
In 1861, President Abraham Lincoln ordered plans for a relief expedition to sail to South Carolina’s Fort Sumter, which was still in the hands of Union forces despite repeated demands by the Confederacy that it be turned over.
Local residents in Alexandria, Virginia are pushing the local governmenthonoring the leaders of the Confederacy.
The Confederacy was outmanned and outgunned by their Union adversaries throughout the war.
As summer turned to fall in 1861, Tennessee Gov. Isham Harris grew tired of gently persuading Union loyalists in East Tennessee to drop their resistance to the Confederacy.
This was also a time when the concept of ninjas was much more solidified, thanks in part to the Iga ikki confederacy of ninjas based in Iga Province during the Sengoku period of Japan.
With Chuck Conners as the rancher Lucas McCain and Johnny Crawford as his son Mark McCain, over the course of 168 black-and-white adventures, this series addressed serious topics such as alcoholism, lone parenting, and the Confederacy.
Benton was arguing against replacing one of Georgia’s two official statutes at the U.S. Capitol — a marble likeness of Alexander Stephens, former Georgia governor and vice president of the Confederacy — with one of Lewis.
Can’t go wrong vice-signaling in defense of traditions honoring the Confederacy if you’re looking to get a leg up in that situation.