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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.
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.
Timmons, Joe T. "The Referendum in Texas on the Ordinance of Secession, February 23, 1861: The Vote." East Texas Historical Journal 11.2 (1973) online. Wooster Ralph A. (1999). Civil War Texas: A History and a Guide. Texas State Historical Association. ISBN 0-87611-171-1. Wooster Ralph A. (2015). Lone Star Blue and Gray: Essays on Texas in the ...
On February 1, 1861, delegates to a special convention to consider secession voted 166 to 8 to adopt an ordinance of secession which cited the institution of slavery as the primary cause of secession. [14] 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 ...
The Civil War largely adjudicated the idea of state secession — but Texas' history has fueled recent talks of breaking away again. ... Immigration is legally under the authority of Washington ...
By the eve of the Civil War in mid-1861, with the addition of Oregon (1859) and Kansas (1861), the number of free states had grown to 19 while the number of slave states remained at 15. From 1812 through 1850, maintaining the balance of free and slave state votes in the Senate was considered of paramount importance if the Union were to be ...
That logic may play in Texas, but Washington, D.C., is a whole different ball game. ... "The ordinance of secession…ratified by a majority of the citizens of Texas, and all the acts of her ...
Good morning and welcome to the A.M. Alert! TEXAS GOV INVOKES SECESSION IN STATEMENT. CALIFORNIA LAWMAKER SHOWS SUPPORT. The Civil War ended 159 years ago, but the language used by the ...