ANNEXATIONISM Antonyms

• the action of changing from colonial to independent status

• avoiding emotional involvement

• the act of releasing from an attachment or connection

• the state of being isolated or detached

• a small unit of troops of special composition

• coming apart

• the condition of being free; the power to act or speak or think without externally imposed restraints

• immunity from an obligation or duty

• a city in western Missouri; the beginning of the Santa Fe Trail

• freedom from control or influence of another or others

• the successful ending of the American Revolution

• the act of liberating someone or something

• the attempt to achieve equal rights or status

• the termination of someone's employment (leaving them free to depart)

• government of a political unit by its own people

• determination of one's own fate or course of action without compulsion

• government of a political unit by its own people

• government free from external control

• royal authority; the dominion of a monarch

• the authority of a state to govern another state