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Proposed state or autonomous area: Republic of Texas. Ethnic group: Americans, Tejanos; Advocacy groups: Texas Nationalist Movement, [109] [110] Republic of Texas (group) New Hampshire [111] [112] Proposed state or autonomous area: New Hampshire Advocacy groups: NHexit, [113] [114] Foundation for New Hampshire Independence, [115] Free State ...
List of active rebel groups. List of rebel groups that control territory; List of anarchist communities. List of anarchist organizations; Stateless society; Stateless nation; Independence. Self determination; Unilateral declaration of independence; List of states with limited recognition; Secession. List of states with limited recognition; List ...
Supporters of Catalan independence in Barcelona in October 2019 Scottish independence supporters in Glasgow.Scotland held an independence referendum on 18 September 2014. This is a list of currently active separatist movements in Europe.
Since the 19th century, the United States government has participated and interfered, both overtly and covertly, in the replacement of many foreign governments. In the latter half of the 19th century, the U.S. government initiated actions for regime change mainly in Latin America and the southwest Pacific, including the Spanish–American and Philippine–American wars.
On September 4, 1776, Luis de Unzaga y Amézaga recognised the United States as a nation in his correspondence with General Lee, addressing him with the title "General of the United States of America". [14] This term was transmitted to Joseph Reed and George Washington. [15] [16] Sweden: April 3, 1783 [17]
This sentiment helped expand support for the Spanish-American War and Cuban liberation despite the U.S. previously establishing itself as anti-independence and revolution. [27] America's victory in the war ended Spanish rule over Cuba, but promptly replaced it with American military occupation of the island from 1898–1902 .
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.
The state's growing abolitionist Black and Hispanic populations led Texas to declare independence from the United States during the presidency of Lyndon B. Johnson, starting a fifteen-year-long 'Texas War' ending in stalemate. The status of Texas as either a U.S. state or an independent republic remained ambiguous thereafter.