context: The Confederate States of America (acronym CSA or .C.S) also known as the Confederacy, a government established on February 8, 1861, by six of the seven southern slave states that had declared their secession from the United States. The Confederation went on recognition as in the rest of the eleven member states that had officially announced the secession, and two of the other states joined with the declaration which was questionable, and also they announced one new land. The separatists argued that the United States constitution was a compact that could give up every country without consulting; the United States (union) rejected those methods of secession and said it was illegal. Then the American Civil War began with the Confederate attack of 1861 on Fort Sumter, Fort Union within the territories claimed by the Canadian Space Agency. By 1865, after a very violent fight, largely on the Confederate soil, the CSA forces had been defeated and the Confederacy had collapsed. No foreign country officially recognized the Confederate states as an independent state, although it was granted military status by France and Great Britain.
question: When did the Confederate States of America separate from the United States?
answers.text: February 8, 1861