secede
Leave the union
To secede is to formally withdraw from a political entity, organization, or alliance.
The word appears most often in discussions of regions or states breaking away from larger nations: The southern states seceded from the Union in 1861.
A group might secede from an organization over policy disagreements.
The noun is secession.
Remove or pull away
- splitSeparation into parts
- partitionBarrier separating spaces
- disunionState of being divided
- breakawaySudden separation from group
detach · disengage · disaffiliate · sever · dissolution · rupture · schism · faction
Supreme independent authority
- autonomyIndependent decision-making capacity
- self-determinationControl over one's fate
- independenceFreedom from external control
- statehoodCondition of being sovereign
nationhood · self-rule · self-government · separatism · breakaway · declaration · referendum · unilateral
Secessionist Southern government
- antebellumBefore a war's start
- UnionNamed political entity
- states' rightsProvincial governmental autonomy
- nullificationFormal cancellation of validity
South Carolina · Fort Sumter · Civil War · Texas · Catalonia · Quebec · Brexit · Scotland
One who revolts
- uprisingOrganized resistance to power
- insurrectionViolent uprising against authority
- revoltOrganized resistance to power
- defianceOpen resistance to authority
dissent · revolution · resistance · mutiny · confederate · dissident · agitation · civil war
withdraw
Remove or pull away
breakaway · detach · disengage · disaffiliate · sever · dissolution · rupture · schism · faction · splinter
sovereignty
Supreme independent authority
- autonomyIndependent decision-making capacity
- self-determinationControl over one's fate
- independenceFreedom from external control
statehood · nationhood · self-rule · self-government · separatism · breakaway · declaration · referendum · unilateral · ratification
Confederacy
Secessionist Southern government
- antebellumBefore a war's start
- UnionNamed political entity
- states' rightsProvincial governmental autonomy
nullification · South Carolina · Fort Sumter · Civil War · Texas · Catalonia · Quebec · Brexit · Scotland · Crimea
insurgent
One who revolts
- uprisingOrganized resistance to power
- insurrectionViolent uprising against authority
- revoltOrganized resistance to power
defiance · dissent · revolution · resistance · mutiny · confederate · dissident · agitation · civil war · treason
- Vienna SecessionAustrian art nouveau splinter group
- secession movementDrive for political withdrawal
- secessionist movementCampaign for political separation
secession, secessionist, seceding, seceded, secedes, secessionists, secessions, secessionism