enow.com Web Search

Search results

  1. Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
  2. Secession in the United States - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Secession_in_the_United_States

    The most serious attempt at secession was advanced in the years 1860 and 1861 as 11 Southern states each declared secession from the United States, and joined to form the Confederate States of America, a procedure and body that the government of the United States refused to accept. The movement collapsed in 1865 with the defeat of Confederate ...

  3. List of active separatist movements in North America

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_active_separatist...

    Southern United States. Proposed state or autonomous region: Confederate States of America or Southern United States or Dixie or Dixieland. Advocacy groups: League of the South, [82] [83] [84] other neo-Confederate and non-confederate southern separatist groups. State of Deseret. Deseret [85] Ethnic group: Mormons; Proposed state or autonomous ...

  4. Partition and secession in California - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Partition_and_secession_in...

    Partition and secession in California. There are 58 counties of California currently. California, the most populous state in the United States and third largest in area after Alaska and Texas, has been the subject of more than 220 proposals to divide it into multiple states since its admission to the Union in 1850, [1] including at least 27 ...

  5. Lists of active separatist movements - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lists_of_active_separatist...

    Below are the articles listing active separatist movements by continent: List of active separatist movements in Africa. List of active separatist movements in Asia. List of active separatist movements in Europe. List of active separatist movements in North America. List of active separatist movements in Oceania.

  6. List of historical separatist movements in North America

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_historical...

    American Revolution. Aztlán. Confederate States of America. 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 ...

  7. Texas secession movements - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Texas_secession_movements

    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.

  8. Confederate States of America - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Confederate_States_of_America

    The Confederate States of America (CSA), commonly referred to as the Confederate States (C.S.), the Confederacy, or the South, was an unrecognized breakaway [1] republic in the Southern United States that existed from February 8, 1861, to May 9, 1865. [8] The Confederacy was composed of eleven U.S. states that declared secession and warred ...

  9. Partition and secession in New York - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Partition_and_secession_in...

    Map of New York. There are and have been several movements regarding secession from the U.S. state of New York.Only one of them – the state of Vermont – succeeded. Among the unsuccessful ones, the most prominent included the proposed state of Long Island, consisting of everything on the island outside New York City; a state called Niagara, the western counties of New York state; the ...