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A New Hampshire man holds a sign advocating for secession during the 2012 presidential campaign. 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 United States; but may loosely refer to leaving a state or territory to form a separate territory or new state, or to the severing of an area from a ...
Political party: Progressive Labour Party (Bermuda), [129][130] One Bermuda Alliance (Historically), Gombey Liberation Movement. Cayman Islands [131][132] proposed state Cayman Islands. political party: People’s Progressive Movement. British Virgin Islands [133] ethnic group: people of the British Virgin Islands.
Political parties: Abertzaleen Batasuna (AB), Eusko Alkartasuna (EFA member), Euzko Alderdi Jeltzalea (Basque Nationalist Party). Trade unions: Euskal Langileen Alkartasuna, Langile Abertzaleen Batzordeak. Youth advocacy groups: Gazte Abertzaleak, Segi. Militant organisations: Irrintzi. Location of Brittany.
Texas secession movements. Texas secession movements, also known as the Texas Independence movement or Texit, [1][2] refers to both the secession of Texas during the American Civil War as well as activities of modern organizations supporting such efforts to secede from the United States and become an independent sovereign state.
Wars of national liberation. Wars of national liberation, also called wars of independence or wars of liberation, are conflicts fought by nations to gain independence. The term is used in conjunction with wars against foreign powers (or at least those perceived as foreign) to establish separate sovereign states for the rebelling nationality.
In January 1861, the Virginia Assembly called a special convention for the sole purpose of considering secession from the United States. Following an election on February 4, 1861, the counties and cities returned a convention of delegates amounting to about one-third for secession and two-thirds Unionist.
New England's Secession Conventions of 1803, 1808, 1814, and 1843. Republic of New Afrika. State of Franklin, secessionist North Carolina western territory (1784–1789) State of Muskogee, secessionist Florida territory (1799 - 1803) For historic Texas separatist movements, see Mexico, above. Republic of West Florida. Conch Republic.
Secession is the formal withdrawal of a group from a political entity. The process begins once a group proclaims an act of secession (such as a declaration of independence). [1] A secession attempt might be violent or peaceful, but the goal is the creation of a new state or entity independent of the group or territory from which it seceded. [2]