Reasons For The Formation Of Texas

Texas was the seventh state to seceded from the Union on February 1st, 1861. The vote was 166 to 7 and was passed on February 2nd, 1861. It allowed the State of Texas to join the confederate states in the south of the nation, on March 2nd. The signees were very carefully chosen and a lot of unique faces in it. Oran Milo Roberts was a very important signee and had a huge impact on Texas by being president of the secession convention, the Chief Justice of the state Supreme Court, and Governor of Texas. Another important signee was Richard Coke, a dominant lawyer in Texas in both civil and criminal cases. A lot of the signees were Texas journalists like John Henry Brown, and members of Congress like John S. Ford. Even William P. Hardeman, who
Most Southern states had at least four reasons to secession and they include slavery, Lincolns Election, Economic issues, and States Rights. Many states were nervous about Abraham Lincoln being elected President, knowing he is going to abolish slavery eventually. The state of Texas was frustrated with the taxation and was not satisfied with federal military protection. In the Texas Ordinance, it states "Texas abandoned her separate national existence and consented to become one of the Confederated States to promote her welfare, insure domestic tranquility and secure more substantially the blessings of peace and liberty to her people." The biggest reason Texas left the Union was the right to be a slave State. Although only one in four families had slaves and were mostly in the East, Texans still supported slavery, thinking it was a vital part of a successful Country. It says in the Texas Ordinance "She was received as a commonwealth holding, maintaining and protecting the institution known as negro slavery--the servitude of the African to the white race within her limits--a relation that had existed from the first settlement of her wilderness by the white race, and which her people intended should exist in all future
Texas was mainly used in the Civil War for supplying horses and soldiers for the Confederate army, although some Texas forces fought east of the Mississippi River Texas supplied the army until 1863, when the Union controlled the Mississippi River, making transportation of men and horses impossible. The most important battle of the Civil War that was in Texas was the Second Battle of Sabine Pass. On September 8th, 1863, a small southern group of southern soldiers defeated a much larger Union force of soldiers coming from New Orleans. The 46 Confederate soldiers used their skills from other battles to destroy the Union ships until finally the remaining Union ships retreated. It was a huge victory for the Confederate Army and CSA President Jefferson Davis said "Sabine Pass will stand, perhaps, for all time, as the greatest military victory in the history of the world." Texas also hosted the last battle of the Civil War, The Battle of Palmito Ranch, fought on May 12th, 1865. The Confederate Army lost the Civil War on June 2, 1865 when a Confederate General Edmund Kirby Smith surrendered east of Mississippi to Union forces. The Reconstruction Period in Texas lasted 34 years, spanning from 1865 to 1899. Many of the towns were destroyed and tempers were still