Secession (disambiguation)

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

Secession may also refer to:

Political secession

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

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

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
- Vienna Secession, the 1897 secession that led to the Austrian branch of Art Nouveau
- Sonderbund westdeutscher Kunstfreunde und Künstler, the Düsseldorf secession of 1909
Photo-Secession, a movement that promoted photography as a fine art