Crossword-Solution: SECESSION
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Secession | n. | The act of seceding; separation from fellowship or association with others, as in a religious or political organization; withdrawal. |
| Secession | n. | The withdrawal of a State from the national Union. |
We have 11 clues for the answer “SECESSION”
| Clue | Answers |
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| 1860–61 headline word. | 1 answer |
| Anti-Union choice | 1 answer |
| Dixie decision: 1861 | 1 answer |
| Formal separation | 1 answer |
| Formal withdrawal | 1 answer |
| Movement led by South Carolina | 1 answer |
| BREAKAWAY | 4 answers |
| dissociation | 15 answers |
| Schism | 31 answers |
| gang war | 54 answers |
| withdrawal | 83 answers |
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Sentences with SECESSION (5)
The Republicans represented themselves as the party of the Union, and they claimed that the Democrats were the party of secession.
There had been a schism among the Chosen People a few months before, some of the younger members of the Church having rebelled against the authority of the Elders, and the result had been the secession of a certain number of the malcontents, who had left Utah and become Gentiles.
They seemed only to regret one thing, which was the secession of their cook, Thomas Elliot—not on account of his professional skill, but for his facetious and curious manner.
Although he had bitterly opposed secession, and was many years past the age of service when the war came on, yet as soon as the President called on the State for her quota of troops to coerce South Carolina, he had raised and uniformed an artillery company, and offered it, not to the President of the United States, but to the Governor of Virginia.
Seized by the state troops upon the secession of North Carolina, it had been held by the Confederates until the approach of Sherman's victorious army, whereupon it was evacuated and partially destroyed.
Quotes with SECESSION (3)
Presidents lie all the time. Really great presidents lie. Abraham Lincoln managed to end slavery in America partially by deception. (In an 1858 debate, he flatly insisted that he had no intention of abolishing slavery in states where it was already legal — he had to say this in order to slow the tide of secession.) Franklin Roosevelt lied about the U.S. position of neutrality until we entered World War II after the attack on Pearl Harbor. (Though the public and Congress belie…
From infancy, I had been accustomed to hear pro and con discussions of slavery and the American Civil War. Although the British government finally decided not to recognise the Confederacy, public opinion in England was sharply divided on the questions both of slavery and of secession.
What happened in America in the 1860s was a war of secession, a war of independence, no different in principle from what happened in America in the 1770s and 1780s.
Where this answer appears
Appears in: LAT, NYT, USA TODAY.
Used 4 times in crossword archives (1958–2006).