disunionists
Those favoring division
Disunionists are people who advocate breaking up a political union.
The term appears most often in American history, referring to those who supported Southern secession before and during the Civil War: The disunionists argued that states had the right to withdraw from the federal compact.
The singular is disunionist.
Autonomy-seeking faction members
- breakawaySudden separation from group
- withdrawalAct of taking away
- partitionBarrier separating spaces
- dissolutionBreaking up completely
states' rights · nullification · sovereignty · autonomy · self-determination · referendum · disaffiliation · splinter
Geographic loyalty over national
- factionalismDivision into opposing cliques
- polarizationSeparation into opposing extremes
- schismFormal organizational fracture
- riftCrack or estrangement
discord · fragmentation · partisanship · states' rights · agrarianism · anti-federalism · fire-eaters · radicalism
Secessionist Southern government
- Jefferson DavisConfederacy's only president
- Missouri Compromise1820 slavery boundary legislation
- Compromise of 1850Five bills balancing slave-state interests
- Kansas-Nebraska Act1854 territorial organization law
John C. Calhoun · Fugitive Slave Act · Dred Scott · states' rights · plantations · Southern Democrats · border states
South Carolina coastal fortification
- ConfederacySecessionist Southern government
- LincolnMidwestern state capital
- AppomattoxWar-ending Virginia town
- ReconstructionPost-1865 national reunification period
Emancipation Proclamation · blockade · Jefferson Davis · Lee · Grant · Sherman's March · Gettysburg · brother against brother
Those opposing human bondage
- John BrownRadical antislavery insurrectionist
- Underground RailroadCovert abolitionist escape network
- LincolnMidwestern state capital
- RepublicansConservative American party members
Frederick Douglass · Harriet Beecher Stowe · Uncle Tom's Cabin · antislavery · emancipation · loyalists · compromisers · moderates
separatists
Autonomy-seeking faction members
- breakawaySudden separation from group
- withdrawalAct of taking away
- partitionBarrier separating spaces
dissolution · states' rights · nullification · sovereignty · autonomy · self-determination · referendum · disaffiliation · splinter · cessation
sectionalism
Geographic loyalty over national
- factionalismDivision into opposing cliques
- polarizationSeparation into opposing extremes
- schismFormal organizational fracture
rift · discord · fragmentation · partisanship · states' rights · agrarianism · anti-federalism · fire-eaters · radicalism · extremism
Confederacy
Secessionist Southern government
- Jefferson DavisConfederacy's only president
- Missouri Compromise1820 slavery boundary legislation
- Compromise of 1850Five bills balancing slave-state interests
John C. Calhoun · Kansas-Nebraska Act · Fugitive Slave Act · Dred Scott · states' rights · plantations · Southern Democrats · border states
Fort Sumter
South Carolina coastal fortification
- ConfederacySecessionist Southern government
- LincolnMidwestern state capital
- AppomattoxWar-ending Virginia town
Reconstruction · Emancipation Proclamation · blockade · Jefferson Davis · Lee · Grant · Sherman's March · Gettysburg · brother against brother · border states
abolitionists
Those opposing human bondage
- John BrownRadical antislavery insurrectionist
- Underground RailroadCovert abolitionist escape network
- LincolnMidwestern state capital
Frederick Douglass · Harriet Beecher Stowe · Uncle Tom's Cabin · Republicans · antislavery · emancipation · loyalists · compromisers · moderates · Henry Clay
disunionistsunionists
Members of worker collectives
preservationists · union men · unifiers · uniters · federalists