What is the meaning of Secession?

noun

  • An Austrian school of art and architecture parallel to the French art nouveau in the 1890s.
  • The withdrawal of eleven southern states from the Union in 1860 which precipitated the American Civil War.
  • Formal separation from an alliance or federation.
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