Definition of Secession

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Definition of Secession
	Secession The act of seceding; separation from fellowship or association with others, as in a religious or political organization; withdrawal. The withdrawal of a State from the national Union. Related Definitions: Act, As, Association, Fellowship, From, In, National, Of, Or, Organization, Political, Religious, Seceding, Separation, State, The, Union, With, Withdrawal

Secession Quotations

What happened in America in the 1860s was a war of secession, a war of independence, no different in principle from what happened in America in the 1770s and 1780s.
L. Neil Smith

IN all her history, from the formation of the federal government until the hour of secession, no year stands out more prominently than the year 1858 as evidencing the national patriotism of Virginia.
John Sergeant Wise

The secession of the Southern States, individually or in the aggregate, was the certain consequence of Mr. Lincoln's election.
Belle Boyd

Secession Translations

secession in Dutch is secessie
secession in German is Trennung, Sezession

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