confederacy

In the confederacy, Georgia enacted a similar 15-day grace period, while Florida law provided an extra 20 days.

From Slate ● Mar. 13, 2026

“This was one way of shifting enslaved labor from agriculture to industry, a necessity for the confederacy during the Civil War,” says Lichtenstein.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 19, 2025

Known as “Lament for Confederation,” it was a landmark moment in First Nations history, calling out the meaning of the confederacy and the impact of colonization on Indigenous peoples.

From Seattle Times ● Mar. 5, 2024

Instead, Cortés wandered into a collection of city states, three of them joined in a powerful confederacy, the Triple Alliance.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 2, 2024

But he drove a hard bargain, demanding that the main Onondaga village, now buried under the present-day city of Syracuse, New York, become the headquarters for the confederacy.

From "1491" by Charles C. Mann

In the founding fathers' day, the possible confederacies most spoken of were the four Eastern states, the four "middle" states and the five Southern states.

From Salon ● May 10, 2020

They also coalesced in larger confederacies when necessary; Europeans would know them as Creeks or Choctaws.

From Textbooks ● Jan. 18, 2018

Without Napoleon Europe could have remained some rough confederacies of fiefdoms, each forever squabbling, no unified Germany or Italy, Russia too big to succeed fractures into more manageable regions, etc.

From New York Times ● Nov. 6, 2017

The Chinese empire believed itself to be the sole legitimate political entity, while to its north and west tribal confederacies fought each other with glee.

From The Guardian ● Sep. 9, 2016

Such was the maintenance of suits, or confederacies for the purpose of supporting each other's claims in litigation, which was the subject of frequent complaints in parliament, and gave rise to several prohibitory statutes.

From View of the State of Europe during the Middle Ages, Vol. 3 by Henry Hallam