Sentences with phrase «secede during»

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The reason for this is that the nation's ideology had changed where it had once trumpeted the ideas of non-intervention and peace (except, of course, for the people of the South during their heroic attempt at independence) to those that glorified empire and war, largely based on the British model which, ironically, was the system that America seceded from in 1776.

Based on the true history of Town Line, New York — the only town north of the Mason Dixon line to secede from the Union — readers are treated to a heartbreaking and redemptive story that captures both the ugliness and beauty of life during the Civil War.

During the thuggish Trump years ahead such left - right voices of reason may be what saves the American union from breaking up as the more progressive Pacific and Atlantic coastal states consider seceding and potentially join Canada.

This state, South Carolina, is well - known as the first state to secede from the Union during the Civil War.

West Virginia: Admitted to the Union as the 35th state during the tumultuous years of the American Civil War, West Virginia distanced itself from the seceding Confederate states.