State and National Secession Attempts
Further information: List of extinct states and Unrecognized historic regions of the United States- Westsylvania (1776)
- Green Mountain Boys (1777–91) (Vermont voluntarily entered the Union in 1791)
- State of Franklin (1784–90)
- Republic of West Florida (1810)
- Republic of Indian Stream (1832–42)
- Free City of Tri-Insula (1861)
- Confederate States of America (1861–65)
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