

The North consisted of the remaining 25 states which were located in the north. The Confederacy was made up of 11 southern states including South Carolina, Mississippi, Florida, Alabama, Georgia, Louisiana, Texas, Virginia, Arkansas, North Carolina, and Tennessee.

They wrote their own Constitution and even had their own president, Jefferson Davis. When the southern states decided to break away, or secede, they made their own country called the Confederate States of America, or the Confederacy.
