Q:Information: - The Confederate States, officially the Confederate States of America (CSA or C.S.), commonly referred to as the Confederacy, was an unrecognized breakaway country of 11 secessionist slave states existing from 1861 to 1865. It was originally formed by seven slave states South Carolina, Mississippi, Florida, Alabama, Georgia, Louisiana, and Texas in the Lower South region of the United States whose regional economy was mostly dependent upon agriculture, particularly cotton, and a plantation system that relied upon the labor of African-American slaves. - William T. Anderson ( 1840 -- October 26 , 1864 ) , better known as Bloody Bill , was one of the deadliest and most brutal pro-Confederate guerrilla leaders in the American Civil War . Anderson led a band that targeted Union loyalists and Federal soldiers in Missouri and Kansas . Raised by a family of Southerners in Kansas , Anderson began supporting himself by stealing and selling horses in 1862 . After his father was killed by a Union - loyalist judge , Anderson fled Kansas for Missouri . There , he robbed travelers and killed several Union soldiers . In early 1863 , Anderson joined Quantrill 's Raiders , a pro-Confederate group of guerrillas that operated in Missouri . He became a skilled bushwhacker , earning the trust of the group 's leaders , William Quantrill and George M. Todd . Anderson 's acts as a guerrilla led the Union to imprison his sisters ; after one of them died in custody , Anderson devoted himself to revenge . He took a leading role in the Lawrence Massacre , and later participated in the Battle of Baxter Springs . In late 1863 , while Quantrill 's Raiders spent the winter in Texas , animosity developed between Anderson and Quantrill . Anderson , perhaps falsely , implicated Quantrill in a murder , leading to the latter 's arrest by Confederate authorities . Anderson subsequently returned to Missouri as the leader of a group of raiders and became the most feared guerrilla in the state , killing and robbing dozens of Union soldiers and civilian sympathizers throughout central Missouri . Although Union supporters viewed him as incorrigibly evil , Confederate sympathizers in Missouri saw his actions as justified , possibly owing to their mistreatment by Union forces . In September 1864 , he led a raid on Centralia , Missouri . Unexpectedly , they were able to capture a passenger train , the first time Confederate guerrillas had done so . In what became known as the Centralia Massacre , possibly the war 's deadliest and most brutal guerrilla action , his men killed 24 Union soldiers on the... - Missouri (see pronunciations) is a state in the Midwestern region of the United States, achieving statehood in 1821. With over six million residents, it is the eighteenth most populous state and host to the mean center of United States population. The largest urban areas are St. Louis, Kansas City, Springfield, and Columbia. The capitol is in Jefferson City on the Missouri River. The state is the twenty-first most extensive by area and is geographically diverse. The Northern Plains were once covered by glaciers, then tallgrass prairie, and now the deep soils yield great agricultural productivity. In the South are the Ozarks, a forested highland, providing timber, minerals, and recreation. The Mississippi River forms the eastern border of the state, eventually flowing into the swampy Missouri Bootheel. - The American Civil War was a civil war in the United States fought from 1861 to 1865. The Union faced secessionists in eleven Southern states grouped together as the Confederate States of America. The Union won the war, which remains the bloodiest in U.S. history. - Kansas is a U.S. state located in the Midwestern United States. Its capital is Topeka and its largest city is Wichita. Kansas is named after the Kansa Native American tribe, which inhabited the area. The tribe's name (natively "") is often said to mean "people of the wind" or "people of the south wind", although this was probably not the term's original meaning. For thousands of years, what is now Kansas was home to numerous and diverse Native American tribes. Tribes in the eastern part of the state generally lived in villages along the river valleys. Tribes in the western part of the state were semi-nomadic and hunted large herds of bison. - A U.S. state is a constituent political entity of the United States of America. There are 50 states, which are bound together in a union with each other. Each state holds administrative jurisdiction over a defined geographic territory, and shares its sovereignty with the United States federal government. Due to the shared sovereignty between each state and the federal government, Americans are citizens of both the federal republic and of the state in which they reside. State citizenship and residency are flexible, and no government approval is required to move between states, except for persons covered by certain types of court orders (e.g., paroled convicts and children of divorced spouses who are sharing custody). - The Mississippi River is the chief river of the largest drainage system on the North American continent. Flowing entirely in the United States (although its drainage basin reaches into Canada), it rises in northern Minnesota and meanders slowly southwards for to the Mississippi River Delta at the Gulf of Mexico. With its many tributaries, the Mississippi's watershed drains all or parts of 31 U.S. states and 2 Canadian provinces between the Rocky and Appalachian Mountains. The Mississippi ranks as the fourth longest and fifteenth largest river in the world by discharge. The river either borders or passes through the states of Minnesota, Wisconsin, Iowa, Illinois, Missouri, Kentucky, Tennessee, Arkansas, Mississippi, and Louisiana. - Secession (derived from the Latin term "secessio") is the withdrawal of a group from a larger entity, especially a political entity (a country), but also any organization, union or military alliance. Threats of secession can also be a strategy for achieving more limited goals. After reading the paragraphs above, we are interested in knowing the entity with which 'william t. anderson' exhibits the relationship of 'allegiance'. Find the answer from the choices below. Choices: - confederate states of america - mexico - union - united states of america
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confederate states of america