confederacy

Noun

• a secret agreement between two or more people to perform an unlawful act

• a group of conspirators banded together to achieve some harmful or illegal purpose

• a union of political organizations

• the southern states that seceded from the United States in 1861

Related words

• Synonyms: 
  conspiracy , confederation , federation , Confederacy , Confederate States , Confederate States of America , South , Dixie , Dixieland