Removal of Confederate monuments and memorials

Removing Confederate monuments and memorials means taking down statues, markers and other things that honor people who fought for the Confederacy in the Civil War. This was a group of states (mostly in the South) who were against the United States and tried to become their own nation. People who supported removing these monuments argue that the Confederacy was wrong and fought for bad things (slavery), and so we shouldn't have statues, markers and monuments that honor them. Other people argue that taking away these monuments gets rid of important pieces of history.