Secession (disambiguation)

"Secessionism" redirects here, not to be confused with Cessationism.

Secession is the act of withdrawing from an organization, union, or political entity. It may also refer to:

Political secession

• Secession in the United States, one of the causes of the American Civil War
  • Ordinance of Secession, an ordinance ratified by the seceding states
  • Missouri secession, a controversy over the double secession status of Missouri
  • Secession in New York, movements to support the secession of New York City from the state or union
• Secessionism in Western Australia, a movement for political independence
• Urban secession, a movement for the quasi-secession of a city
• Secession of Quebec (disambiguation), articles about the possible secession of Quebec from Canada
• Killington, Vermont secession movement, current court battle over the voted defection of a Vermont town to New Hampshire
• Liberal Union (Germany), also called Secession, a leftist break-away from the National Liberal Party (Germany) in the German Empire

Social secession

• Secessio plebis, the original secessions of ancient Rome
• Aventine Secession (disambiguation), secessions of the Aventine district in Rome
• Economic secession, a nonviolent activism technique used to fight tyranny
• First Secession from the Church of Scotland in 1733
• 1857 Secession, secession from the Reformed Church in America in 1857 which led to the formation of the Christian Reformed Church in North America
• Secession of 1834 or Afscheiding, secession from the Dutch Reformed Church in 1834 which led to the formation of the Christelijke Gereformeerde Kerken

Secession in art

• Secession (art), the series of secession movements in art during the late 19th and early 20th century, including:
  • Berlin Secession, the 1898 break from the Association of Berlin Artists
  • Vienna Secession, the 1897 secession that led to the Austrian branch of Art Nouveau
  • Sonderbund westdeutscher Kunstfreunde und Künstler, the Düsseldorf secession of 1909
• Photo-Secession, a movement that promoted photography as a fine art

Secession in music

• Secession (band), a synth pop band that existed between 1983 and 1987

See also

• List of active separatist movements
• List of historical separatist movements
• List of states with limited recognition
• List of U.S. state partition proposals
• List of U.S. county secession proposals