Sentences with 'secession'

Example sentences and phrases with the word secession and other words derived from it.

« The rebels also contacted their inland neighbours in Kentucky and South Carolina, circulating the idea of secession. »
« Some Southern politicians spoke ominously of secession from the United States. Free-soilers rejected popular sovereignty and demanded that slavery be permanently excluded from the territories. »
« The Compromise of 1850 brought temporary relief. It resolved the issue of slavery in the territories for the time being and prevented secession. However, the peace would not last. Instead of easing tensions between the North and South, it worsened them. »
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