All 6 Uses of
secession
in
Chasing Lincoln's Killer
- The conflict had begun long before over the right to own slaves and states' right to secede, that is, to leave the Union if they disagreed with the government.†
p. i.2
- They also believed that if the national government disagreed with that right, Southern states had the right to secede.†
p. i.7 *
- Maryland, although it did not secede from the Union and join the Confederacy at the start of the Civil War, remained a hotbed of secessionists.†
p. 75.1
- Maryland was as Confederate as a state could be without actually seceding.†
p. 75.2
- If Maryland had seceded and become the twelfth star on the Confederate flag, the Union would have been in grave danger.†
p. 75.2
- Pro-secession, pro-Southern rebels began mailing death threats to Lincoln before he took office in 1861.†
p. 23.1
Definitions:
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(1)
(secession) formal separation from an alliance or federation
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(2)
(meaning too rare to warrant focus) meaning too rare to warrant focus:
Secession or secede is often used to reference the withdrawal of the southern states from the United States prior to the Civil War.