Which event led to the secession of Texas and other southern states?
Texas was not the first southern state to secede. South Carolina was the first. As far as the cause for this string of secession, you have to understand the United States in the mid-1800s. Secession was set into motion in 1776 if you really think about it. The biggest cause was the fact that the Declaration of Independence was signed, forming a new nation (the United States), with the institution of slavery still there. It can be said, if you are bold enough, that our Founding Fathers were hippocrates. The Declaration of Independence states that ALL men are created equal. Apparently this did not apply to African slaves. Following the Revolutionary War the United States developed in different ways. In fact, when referring to the United States at that time, people would say “the United States ARE”… this suggests a divide, or at the very least that the nation was not consolidated as one country. The southern states were mainly agricultural, whereas the northern states had begun to indus
