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The ordinance was ratified by a popular referendum on February 23, making Texas the seventh and last state of the Lower South to do so. [11] [13] [15] 1861 Texas Secession Referendum Map by county, teal is For and orange is Against [16] Some wanted to restore the Republic of Texas, but an identity with the Confederacy was embraced.
Following the election of Abraham Lincoln in 1860, public opinion among free citizens in the cotton states of the Lower South (South Carolina through Texas) swung in favor of secession. By February 1861, the other six states of the sub-region had separately passed ordinances of secession.
An Ordinance of Secession was the name given to multiple resolutions [1] drafted and ratified in 1860 and 1861, at or near the beginning of the American Civil War, by which each seceding slave-holding Southern state or territory formally declared secession from the United States of America.
English: 1861 Texas Secession Referendum Map by county, teal is For and orange is Against. Data from Vote archive, alternate color scheme used due to large amounts of counties with over 90% in favor of one side.
October 30 – The bill is passed for Missouri's secession from the Union. October 31 Missouri's secession from the Union bill is signed by Governor Claiborne Fox Jackson, but by this date Governor Jackson only controls parts of South-Western Missouri. Union forces led by general John C. Frémont have consolidated control over the vast majority ...
Map of the county secession votes of 1860–1861 in Appalachia within the ARC definition. Virginia and Tennessee show the public votes, while the other states show the vote by county delegates to the conventions. Unionism—opposition to the Confederacy—was strong in certain areas within the Confederate States.
"The ordinance of secession…ratified by a majority of the citizens of Texas, and all the acts of her legislature intended to give effect to that ordinance, were absolutely null….The State did ...
A recent column in The Hill also made light of the term, calling the compact theory “a rejected idea of state supremacy used to justify the secession of Confederate states during the Civil War.”