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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.
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 ...
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.
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 ...
Date/Time Thumbnail Dimensions User Comment; current: 23:47, 23 February 2007: 787 × 483 (111 KB): Tintazul {{Tintazul |Description=United States map of 1861, show affiliation of states and territories regarding the Secession War (Civil War.)
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 ...
Secession talk an insult to nation. As a disabled American veteran, I strongly agree with Bud Kennedy when he writes that the idea of Texas seceding from the United States is not heroic, nor is it ...