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In his new book, Break It Up: Secession, Division and the Secret History of America's Imperfect Union, Richard Kreitner explores the history of secession movements in the United States — which ...
secession, in U.S. history, the withdrawal of 11 slave states (states in which slaveholding was legal) from the Union during 1860–61 following the election of Abraham Lincoln as president. Secession precipitated the American Civil War.
According to the 2017 book Secession and Security, by political scientist Ahsan Butt, states respond violently to secessionist movements if the potential state poses a greater threat than the would-be secessionist movement. [4]
Secession, as it applies to the outbreak of the American Civil War, comprises the series of events that began on December 20, 1860, and extended through June 8 of the next year when eleven states...
Secession and secessionists movements have proliferated since the end of the Second World War. The academic literature has extensively explored these movements from different aspects.
Secessionism is a “special species of ethnic conflict” (Horowitz 1985, 230). Nations or national groups who aspire to political sovereignty attempt to “mobilise the target population and [to] gain international support for their cause” (Kubo 2011, 210).
United States - Secession, Civil War, Politics: In the South, Lincoln’s election was taken as the signal for secession, and on December 20 South Carolina became the first state to withdraw from the Union. Promptly the other states of the lower South followed.