I consider the Confederate-era – and those decades preceding (from around the 1820s onwards – including the “Missouri Crisis” of 1819–1821) to be “Revolutionary”. From time to time, the threat to “secede” was exercised by numerous individual States (including “New England” – which opposed the 1846 invasion of Mexico – and threatened withdrawing from the Union if their men were to be drafted). Even the newly added “Texas” – although being invaded and annexed by the US – was always threatening to “secede” if the US kept enforcing despotic governance upon it (Texas [illegally] joined the Union in 1845 in defiance of Mexico sovereignty – and withdrew in 1861 to join the Confederacy). Of course, different historians ascribe varying dates as to the “threat” of “secession” being used as a political crow-bar – but used it was. If the Confederacy had prevailed – North America would have been split into the CSA, the US, and a Free Indian Territory – with all expansion westward being outlawed. This is why many Indian tribes joined the Confederate Army.
