secessionist movement
Push for independence
A secessionist movement is an organized effort by a group within a country to break away and form an independent state or join another nation.
Such movements may pursue their goals through political channels, referendums, or armed conflict: The secessionist movement in Catalonia has pushed for independence from Spain.
The term applies regardless of whether observers consider the cause legitimate.
- American Civil War1861-1865 U.S. conflict
- civil unrestPublic disturbance by citizens
- referendumDirect vote on legislation
- independenceFreedom from external control
- ethnic identityBelonging to ancestral group
anti-colonialism · indigenous sovereignty · national identity · constitutional law · autonomy · nationalism · self-determination · freedom fighters · historical grievances · liberation · minority rights · separatism · international recognition · border dispute · cultural heritage · decentralization · state sovereignty · treaty negotiation
- nonstate actorsmilitia, insurgent, rebel group, guerrilla, paramilitary
- Border StatesKentucky, Delaware, Missouri, Maryland, West Virginia
- uprisingsuprising, revolt, rebellion, insurrection, mutiny
secessionist movementnationalist movement
Political drive for sovereignty
secession, secede, seceded, seceding, secessionism, secessionist, secessionists, moving, movers