secessionist
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Secessionist parties won a regional election in December, but they have failed to agree on how the region should be ruled.
From Washington Post • Feb. 23, 2018
Secessionist rhetoric revealed a variety of motives and ambitions.
From Textbooks • Jan. 18, 2018
Secessionist southerners declared their separateness from the rest of the nation with separate texts to indoctrinate their children.
From Slate • Dec. 8, 2017
Here in Vegas, a city he bizarrely considers to be like Vienna during the Secessionist period, he’s in his element being out of this element.
From The Guardian • Jan. 23, 2016
This last declaration illustrated the second line of defense, behind the Secessionist advance.
From The Negro and the Nation A History of American Slavery and Enfranchisement by Merriam, George Spring
Vocabulary lists containing secessionist
Unit 1: Telling Details
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Lincoln's Spymaster
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