Warm-up
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How would you best describe Abraham
Lincoln’s view on slavery in 1860?
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B.
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D.
He believed that slavery was necessary for the
cotton industry.
He wanted to end slavery throughout the US.
He did not want slavery to spread to the
Western territories.
He thought that slavery was good for the US
economy.
Secession
The Confederate States of America
The two-sides
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Unionist - a person who opposed secession
during the Civil War.
Secessionist - a person who thinks that a
nation, state, etc., should separate from
another and become independent.
Lincoln elected
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The 1860 election was strictly sectional
Lincoln’s name was not even on some
southern ballots
Because of the election South Carolina
was the first state to secede on December
20th, 1860.
Who followed?
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The states that relied mostly on cotton, join
in early 1861
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Georgia, Alabama, Louisiana, Texas, Florida,
and Mississippi
Then 4 more joined once the Confederacy
declares war
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Arkansas, North Carolina, Virginia, and
Tennessee
Texas’s Allegiance
Texas considered itself a southern state b/c:
• Geographic location
• Immigration patterns- most Texans emigrated
from the southern parts of the U.S. & many
families had ties to extended families in other
parts of the south
• TX as a Mexican state, Republic, and state had
allowed slavery
• Texas was an agricultural state and most farmers
did not own slaves, but large plantations and
their wealthy owners dominated politics and
decision making
Texas Secedes 1850-1860’s
In 1859, at the age of 70, Good ole Sam
Houston was re-elected governor of Texas
He didn’t want to fight anymore or join the
Confederate States of America
Why did Sam Houston oppose Texas
seceding from the Union?
In January of 1861, Texas held a Secession
Convention against Houston’s wishes
They drafted a law proposing that Texas
secede saying the U.S. had abused its power
against the people of Texas
What were they thinking?
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Texan delegates called for an election to
vote on secession
Only white, male landowners could vote
600,000 people in Texas but only 10% of the
pop. voted - 46,000 for secession 14,500
against
Some southern actually believed that the
U.S. would just let them go w/out fighting
Both North and South believed they would
win the fight w/in a few months
The Texas Vote
Southern States held the Montgomery,
Alabama Convention in February 1861
 The Confederate States of America(CSA)
was formed
 At the convention the
delegates voted 166 to 8
for
secession from the Union.
Confederate President
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Jefferson Davis leaves
the US Senate to
become the president
of the Confederacy
CSA gov’t demanded
a Loyalty Oath or
pledge of allegiance
from all government
officials
Confederate States of America
Sam Houston predicted the outcome….. If only Texans had listened to
him….
Read Sam Houston Speaks about Secession
Sam Houston Speaks about War and Secession
“Some of you laugh to scorn the idea of
bloodshed as the result of secession, but let
me tell you what is coming.... Your fathers and
husbands, your sons and brothers, will be
herded at the point of the bayonet.... You may
after the sacrifice of countless millions of
treasure and hundreds of thousands of lives,
as a bare possibility, win Southern
independence ...but I doubt it.” (1861)