Secession (disambiguation)
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Secession is the act of withdrawing from an organization, union, or political entity. It may also refer to:
Political secession[edit]
- 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[edit]
- 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[edit]
- 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[edit]
- Secession (band), a synth pop band that existed between 1983 and 1987
See also[edit]
- 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
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