Secession (disambiguation)

"Secessionism" redirects here; not to be confused with Cessationism.

Secession is the act of withdrawing from an organization, union, or political entity.

Secession may also refer to:

Political secession

• Liberal Union, also called Secession, a leftist break-away from the National Liberal Party in the German Empire
• Secession in the United States
  • Killington, Vermont, secession movement, current court battle over the voted defection of a Vermont town to New Hampshire
  • Missouri secession, a controversy over the double secession status of Missouri in the American Civil War era
  • Ordinance of Secession, an ordinance ratified by the seceding states that was one of the causes of the American Civil War
  • Secession in New York, movements to support the secession of New York City from the state or union
• Secession of Quebec (disambiguation), articles about the possible secession of Quebec from Canada
• Secessionism in Western Australia, a movement for political independence
• Urban secession, a movement for the quasi-secession of a city

Social secession

• 1857 Secession, secession from the Reformed Church in America in 1857 which led to the formation of the Christian Reformed Church in North America
• Aventine Secession (disambiguation), secessions of the Aventine district in Rome
• First Secession, from the Church of Scotland in 1733
• Secessio plebis, the original secessions of ancient Rome
• Secession of 1834 or Afscheiding, secession from the Dutch Reformed Church in 1834 which led to the formation of the Christelijke Gereformeerde Kerken

Arts, entertainment, and media

Arts movements

• Secession (art), the series of secession movements in art during the late 19th and early 20th century, including:
  • Berlin Secession, the 1898 break from the Association of Berlin Artists
  • Sonderbund westdeutscher Kunstfreunde und Künstler, the Düsseldorf secession of 1909
  • Vienna Secession, the 1897 secession that led to the Austrian branch of Art Nouveau
• Photo-Secession, a movement that promoted photography as a fine art

Other uses in arts, entertainment, and media

• Secession (band), a 1980s Scottish synthpop band
• Secession (magazine), a 1920s American expatriate literary magazine
• Secession, a collaboration album between Starringo & Aha Gazelle
• "Secession" (Succession), an episode of the television series Succession

See also

• List of active separatist movements
• List of historical separatist movements
• List of states with limited recognition
• List of U.S. state partition proposals
• List of U.S. county secession proposals
• Separatist (disambiguation)
• Succession (disambiguation)