In the context of the United States, secession primarily refers to the voluntary withdrawal of one or more states from the Union that constitutes the...

slave-holding Southern state or territory formally declared secession from the United States of America. South Carolina, Mississippi, Georgia, and Texas...

Coast – American pejorative political expression Secession in the United States – A state leaving the Union The Nine Nations of North America – 1981 book by...

the war and four states after the onset) that declared their secession from the United States (the Union) and united to form the Confederate States of...

from the United States and become an independent sovereign state. The U.S. Constitution does not specifically address the secession of states, and the issue...

Partition and secession in the United States may refer to: Secession in the United States List of U.S. state partition proposals This disambiguation page...

secession can be a strategy for achieving more limited goals. Notable examples of secession, and secession attempts, include: the Confederate States of...

Legislatures of the States concerned as well as of the Congress". At the time of Vermont's secession in 1777, the Constitution of the United States did not yet...

there have been some calls for the secession of multiple states or large regions in the American West (such as the proposal of Cascadia) which often...

active separatist movements in North America List of U.S. county secession proposals Territorial evolution of the United States, noting all state boundary...

(January 1, 2004). "The Institutional Basis of Secessionist Politics: Federalism and Secession in the United States". Publius: The Journal of Federalism...

and Practice of Secession. Ashgate Publishing, Ltd. ISBN 9780754671633. Wikimedia Commons has media related to States of the United States. State Resource...

the American Civil War. In 1860 and 1861, 11 southern states each declared secession from the United States and joined to form the Confederate States...

against the Alaskan statehood vote. In 1973, Vogler began circulating a petition seeking support for secession of Alaska from the United States. The Alaska...

reasons for seceding from the United States. It followed the brief Ordinance of Secession that had been issued on December 20. The declaration is a product...

than the continent alone. Pacific Northwest portal Oregon portal Washington portal Canada portal United States portal Secession in the United States Secession...

for the United States to withdraw from the United Nations, where it is one of the founding members and one of the five permanent members of the United Nations...

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The last instance of secession in the United States was in 1861, a precursor to the formation of the Confederate States of America, when 11 states declared...

to the topic, issued declarations of secession from the United States and created the Confederate States of America. Four more joined them after the war...

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unilaterally secede from the United States, and that the ordinances of secession, and all the acts of the legislatures within seceding states intended to give...

Conservatism in the United States is based on a belief in individualism, traditionalism, republicanism, and limited federal governmental power in relation...

the largest of its state is Burlington, Vermont, with 44,000 people. List of state partition proposals in the United States Secession in the United States...

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The Thirteenth Amendment (Amendment XIII) to the United States Constitution abolished slavery and involuntary servitude, except as punishment for a crime...

and four states after the onset) that declared their secession from the United States (the Union) and united to form the Confederate States of America...

ratified the United States Constitution on May 23, 1788. Its Senate seats were declared vacant in July 1861 owing to its secession from the Union. They...

The Midwestern United States (also referred to as the Midwest or the American Midwest) is one of the four census regions defined by the United States...