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See main articles Origins of the American Civil War, Confederate States of America and American Civil War. The most famous secessionist movement was the movement which dominated the Southern states of the United States. Secession from the United States was accepted in eleven states (but it was rejected in two other states).
The American Civil War (April 12, 1861 – May 26, 1865; also known by other names) was a civil war in the United States between the Union [e] ("the North") and the Confederacy ("the South"), which was formed in 1861 by states that had seceded from the Union.
There is no consensus on the definition of political secession despite many political theories on the subject. [2]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]
An Ordinance of Secession was the name given to multiple resolutions [1] drafted and ratified in 1860 and 1861, at or near the beginning of the Civil War, by which each seceding slave-holding Southern state or territory formally declared secession from the United States of America.
During the election of 1856, Fire-Eaters used threats of secession to persuade Northerners, who generally valued saving the Union over fighting slavery, to vote for James Buchanan. They used several recent events for propaganda, among them " Bleeding Kansas " and the caning of Charles Sumner , to accuse the North of trying to abolish slavery ...
The government is on alert ahead of the 2022 midterms. Experts say the possibility of the political climate igniting a civil war is remote — but not off the table.
The first published Confederate imprint of secession, from the Charleston Mercury.. The South Carolina Declaration of Secession, formally known as the Declaration of the Immediate Causes Which Induce and Justify the Secession of South Carolina from the Federal Union, was a proclamation issued on December 24, 1860, by the government of South Carolina to explain its reasons for seceding from the ...
“If we separate from that, the people in Chicago can get what they want and the people in southern Illinois can have a community that more accurately represents us.”