secession

sovereignty

Supreme independent authority

• autonomyIndependent decision-making capacity
• self-determinationControl over one's fate
• self-ruleGovernance without outside control

self-governance · statehood · nationhood · home rule · separation · breakaway · disunion · withdrawal · liberation · freedom

split

Separation into parts

• schismFormal organizational fracture
• riftCrack or estrangement
• divisionSplitting into parts

cleavage · breakup · fragmentation · disintegration · dissolution · severance · rupture · fissure · breach · fracture

civil war

Domestic armed conflict

• hostilitiesActive armed fighting
• rebellionDefiance of established power
• insurrectionViolent uprising against authority

uprising · revolt · insurgency · strife · confrontation · clash · bloodshed · siege · bombardment · blockade

separatist

Advocate for breaking away

• disunionistAdvocate for breaking federation
• nullificationFormal cancellation of validity
• states' rightsProvincial governmental autonomy

federalism · ratification · compact · constitution · legislature · convention · delegate · resolution · ordinance · proclamation

Confederacy

Secessionist Southern government

• UnionNamed political entity
• ConfederateSecessionist state supporter
• antebellumBefore a war's start

Southern · slavery · abolitionism · plantation · cotton · Deep South · border states · Dixie · Jefferson Davis · Lincoln

• Southern PoliticsDixiecrats, Jim Crow, poll tax, poll taxes, one-party rule
• Separatismseparatism, separatist, independence movements, sovereignty movements, breakaway
• 1800s AmericaOregon Trail, Trail of Tears, transcontinental railroad, Civil War, Abraham Lincoln
• 1860sAbraham Lincoln, American Civil War, Appomattox, Confederacy, Confederate States
• Deep SouthAlabama, Georgia, Louisiana, Mississippi River, Mississippi Delta
• independencefreedom, liberty, Independence Day, autonomy, sovereignty