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Texas secession movements. Texas secession movements, also known as the Texas Independence movement or Texit, [1][2] refers to both the secession of Texas during the American Civil War as well as activities of modern organizations supporting such efforts to secede from the United States and become an independent sovereign state.
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The most serious attempt at secession was advanced in the years 1860 and 1861 as 11 Southern states each declared secession from the United States, and joined to form the Confederate States of America, a procedure and body that the government of the United States refused to accept. The movement collapsed in 1865 with the defeat of Confederate ...
1855 J. H. Colton Company map of Virginia that predates the West Virginia partition by seven years.. Numerous state partition proposals have been put forward since the 1776 establishment of the United States that would partition an existing U.S. state or states so that a particular region might either join another state or create a new state.
Texas declared its secession from the Union on February 1, 1861, and joined the Confederate States on March 2, 1861, after it had replaced its governor, Sam Houston, who had refused to take an oath of allegiance to the Confederacy. As with those of other states, the Declaration of Secession was not recognized by the US government at Washington, DC.
New England's Secession Conventions of 1803, 1808, 1814, and 1843. Republic of New Afrika. State of Franklin, secessionist North Carolina western territory (1784–1789) State of Muskogee, secessionist Florida territory (1799 - 1803) For historic Texas separatist movements, see Mexico, above. Republic of West Florida. Conch Republic.
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