{"id":6756,"date":"2025-07-01T03:54:46","date_gmt":"2025-07-01T03:54:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/openlab.bmcc.cuny.edu\/pol-100-a050-american-government-summer-2025\/?p=6756"},"modified":"2025-07-01T03:55:07","modified_gmt":"2025-07-01T03:55:07","slug":"a-question-regarding-module-7-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/openlab.bmcc.cuny.edu\/pol-100-a050-american-government-summer-2025\/2025\/07\/01\/a-question-regarding-module-7-1\/","title":{"rendered":"A question regarding Module 7.1"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I seek clarity on the following question:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">During the civil war the Southern States were referred to as the Confederacy. I understand that when a group of nations form an alliance it is called a &#8220;Confederation&#8221;. Does this mean that all of the other States (there were 34 states at the time of the Civil War) were also a Confederation? So, were there 2 Confederations in existence? Did  the other states form (implicitly) an alliance?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I look forward to hearing from you.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Cheers,<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Ronald Hinds<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I seek clarity on the following question: During the civil war the Southern States were referred to as the Confederacy. I understand that when a group of nations form an alliance it is called a &#8220;Confederation&#8221;. Does this mean that all of the other States (there were 34 states at the time of the Civil&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10677,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"portfolio_post_id":0,"portfolio_citation":"","portfolio_annotation":"","openlab_post_visibility":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6756","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-discussion-board-7-1"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/openlab.bmcc.cuny.edu\/pol-100-a050-american-government-summer-2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6756","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/openlab.bmcc.cuny.edu\/pol-100-a050-american-government-summer-2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/openlab.bmcc.cuny.edu\/pol-100-a050-american-government-summer-2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/openlab.bmcc.cuny.edu\/pol-100-a050-american-government-summer-2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10677"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/openlab.bmcc.cuny.edu\/pol-100-a050-american-government-summer-2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6756"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/openlab.bmcc.cuny.edu\/pol-100-a050-american-government-summer-2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6756\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6757,"href":"https:\/\/openlab.bmcc.cuny.edu\/pol-100-a050-american-government-summer-2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6756\/revisions\/6757"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/openlab.bmcc.cuny.edu\/pol-100-a050-american-government-summer-2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6756"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/openlab.bmcc.cuny.edu\/pol-100-a050-american-government-summer-2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6756"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/openlab.bmcc.cuny.edu\/pol-100-a050-american-government-summer-2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6756"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}