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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 ...
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 ...
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.
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 ...
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 ...
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.
The Khalistan movement is a separatist movement seeking to create a homeland for Sikhs by establishing an ethno ‐ religious sovereign state called Khalistan (lit. ' land of the Khalsa ') in the Punjab region. [2] The proposed boundaries of Khalistan vary between different groups; some suggest the entirety of the Sikh-majority Indian state of ...
1855 J. H. Colton Company map of Virginia that predates the West Virginia partition by seven years.. Numerous state partition proposals have been put forward since the 1776 establishment of the United States that would partition an existing U.S. state or states so that a particular region might either join another state or create a new state.