Curated playlist
States of the Confederate States of America
- Indian Territory in the American Civil WarThe last Confederate general to surrender was Cherokee leader Stand Watie. He gave up at Doaksville on June 23, 1865.
- Confederate government of MissouriMissouri's Confederate government never actually governed Missouri. It sat in exile in Marshall, Texas.
- AlabamaAlabama's largest city is Huntsville, not its capital, Montgomery. NASA arrived in 1960.
- MississippiMississippi was the fifth-wealthiest state before the Civil War. Today its per-capita income is the lowest.
- ArkansasIn 1881, Arkansas lawmakers had to pass a resolution on how to say the state's name.
- TexasTexas took its name from a Caddo word meaning 'friend.' The Spanish first applied it to the Caddo people.
- TennesseeTennessee was the last state to secede, yet the first former Confederate state readmitted.
- LouisianaNapoleon sold all of Louisiana to the United States for less than three cents an acre.
- North CarolinaNorth Carolina was the first colony to formally instruct its delegates to vote for independence.
- South CarolinaAbout a third of all combat in the war for independence took place in South Carolina.
- Georgia (U.S. state)Joe Biden carried Georgia in 2020 by only 11,779 votes. Georgia had voted Republican six times running.
- FloridaFlorida's position between two bodies of water shaped its whole history.
- VirginiaVirginia's elected assembly first met in July 1619, before the Pilgrims landed.