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A New Hampshire man holds a sign advocating for secession during the 2012 presidential election. 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 ...
The following is a list of substantive proposals, both successful and unsuccessful, put forward since the nation's founding to partition or set off a portion of an existing U.S. state or states so that the region might either join another state or create a new state. Proposals to secede from the Union and proposals to create states from either ...
New England in the USA in red. New England. Proposed state or autonomous region: Republic of New England [103] Advocacy group: New England Independence Campaign, [104] [105] [103] New England Autonomy Movement, [106] People's Initiative of New England [107] Alaska. Alaska. Ethnic group: Alaskan Creoles, Alaska Natives, Americans, Russian Americans
A movement in a myriad of rural counties across deep blue states such as Illinois and California to split off and form new states appears to be gaining some steam in the wake of the Nov. 5 election.
"A Poor Man’s Fight: Civil War Enlistment Patterns in Conway, New Hampshire." Historical New Hampshire 43 (1988): 21–40. Renda, Lex. Running on the Record: Civil War-Era Politics in New Hampshire (U of Virginia Press, 1997). online review; Scott, Kenneth. "Press opposition to Lincoln in New Hampshire," New England Quarterly 21 (1948): 326–41.
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Daniel Webster (January 18, 1782 – October 24, 1852) was an American lawyer and statesman who represented New Hampshire and Massachusetts in the U.S. Congress and served as the 14th and 19th U.S. secretary of state under presidents William Henry Harrison, John Tyler, and Millard Fillmore.
Creation of a "Union Party" was a frequent proposition in the decade preceding the American Civil War. During the presidency of Millard Fillmore, Daniel Webster and others envisioned the Union Party as a vehicle for political moderates to support the Compromise of 1850 against attacks from abolitionists and secessionist Fire-Eaters.