Most people associate secession with the Civil War but idea of disuniting the United States has crept into national ...

Multiple groups have pushed for California to leave the union in the past decade. The initiative sponsor, CalExit (founded ...

The South did not want Lincoln to be the President. At a meeting in the town of Montgomery, Alabama they formed a new government called the Confederate States of America.

The Southern states wanted to assert their authority ... they turned to the only alternative they believed was left to them: secession, a political decision that led directly to war.