secession movement
Push for separation
A secession movement is an organized political effort by a region or group to withdraw from a larger political entity—typically a nation-state.
Such movements may seek full independence or merger with another country: The secession movement in Catalonia has pushed for a referendum on independence from Spain.
The term often carries historical weight in American contexts, evoking the Southern states' departure from the Union before the Civil War.
- American Civil War1861-1865 U.S. conflict
- ethnic identityBelonging to ancestral group
- sovereigntySupreme independent authority
- constitutional lawLegal principles from founding documents
- BrexitUK leaving European Union
autonomy · border · border dispute · minority rights · nationalism · separatism · cultural preservation · international law · Catalonia · protest · independence · decentralization · confederation · anti-colonialism · political autonomy · self-determination · treaties · grassroots activism
- social movementswomen's liberation, abolition, feminism, disability rights, LGBT rights
- movementsmove, step, turn, shift, slide
- Western AustraliaFremantle, Kimberley, Newman, Albany, York
- ZambiaLusaka, Zambezi, Victoria Falls, Livingstone, Zambians
secession movementannexation
Absorbing territory into jurisdiction
political union · consolidation · pan-nationalism · expansionism · incorporation
secession movementunification
Merging into one entity
reunification · pan-nationalism · federalism · consolidation · centralization
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