If a state leaves the union, it is said to secede.
In the American Civil War, because the Western counties of Virginia did not approve of the Virginia breaking away from the USA. So they broke away from the CSA, and gave Lincoln a welcome gift of a new state of the Union.
South Carolina was the first state to break free of the Union.
South Carolina
You may be referring to West Virginia, which broke away from Virginia when that state seceded from the Union. West Virginia became a state of the Union in 1863.
A satellite state is one who's government is heavily influenced or controlled by another country.In the Soviet Union, the satellite states included Albania, Bulgaria, Czechoslovak Socialist Republic, German Democratic Republic (in what is now eastern Germany), Poland, Romania, and Hungary. Yugoslavia was also considered to be a Soviet satellite state, though it broke away from the Soviet Union in 1948. Albania was the same, breaking from the Soviet Union in 1960.
Breaking away from a federation or union is secession.
In the American Civil War, because the Western counties of Virginia did not approve of the Virginia breaking away from the USA. So they broke away from the CSA, and gave Lincoln a welcome gift of a new state of the Union.
South Carolina was the first state to break free of the Union.
Because the people living in the western part of Virginia wanted to remain part of the Union, breaking away from Virginia and forming the separate state of West Virginia
South Carolina
West Virginia
You may be referring to West Virginia, which broke away from Virginia when that state seceded from the Union. West Virginia became a state of the Union in 1863.
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The Northern clubs of England were instrumental in breaking away from union and forming a Rugby League.
It was the Southern states that 'formed separately' by breaking away as the Confederacy. The North was what was left. They didn't call themselves the North. They called themselves the Union.
The immediate cause was the breaking away of eleven southern states from the union, electing their own President.
He said it in the third paragraph of his speech: "Together, we have cleared away the rubble of crisis, and can say with renewed confidence that the state of our union is stronger." I enclose a link to a transcript of the speech.