The following statements about the Confederate States of America are true:
-They adopted the "stars and bars" as their flag. The first official national flag of the Confederation, called "Stars and Bars", was used from March 4, 1861 to May 1, 1863. It was inspired by the weapons of the Archduke of Austria, which would eventually originate the current national flag of Austria, and was designed by Prussian artist Nicola Marschall in Marion, Alabama. It was officially adopted on March 4, 1861 in Montgomery, Alabama.
-They elected Jefferson Davis as their president. Jefferson Davis was a politician who served as president of the Confederate States of America from 1861 to 1865. As a member of the Democratic Party, he represented Mississippi in the United States Senate and the House of Representatives before changing his allegiance to the Confederacy.
-They elected Alexander H. Stephens as their vice president. Alexander Hamilton Stephens was an American politician who served in the House of Representatives of his country, where he advocated slavery but opposed the dissolution of the Union. When Georgia left the Union, he was elected Vice President of the Confederation.
-They drafted a Confederate Constitution. The Constitution of the Confederate States of America was the fundamental law of the Confederate States of America, adopted on March 11, 1861, and effective until the conclusion of the American Civil War.
