Warm Up 1/27/16 What was the Northerners view of state’s rights? What was the Southerners views of state’s rights?

Learning Target: We will discuss the reason’s Texas joined the Confederacy. Success Criteria: We will create a bumper sticker reflecting your support for Texas joining the Confederacy.

Southern States Many of the southern states entered the Union as sovereign states and had the right to leave or secede when their rights were threatened.

Abraham Lincoln Abraham Lincoln won the election for President in November 1860. Many southerners believed that their way of life was in danger. Lincoln wanted to end slavery in the U.S. By January of 1861 six southern states had seceded from the United States (South Carolina, Mississippi, Florida, Alabama, Georgia, and Louisiana).

Ordinance of Secession Convention began in Austin on January 28th, 1861. Members wrote that the US had abused its power by interfering with Texas interest. Texas had the sovereign right to free itself from the Union. A month after the convention the Texas people voted and secession from the US was approved. (February 23, 1861)

In its declaration of secession, Texas stated that it intended to go to war to preserve a southern way of life that made racial distinctions, in part, by maintaining blacks in a condition of servitude.

Forming the Confederate Govt. Southern states created a new country by the name of the Confederate States of America. They wrote a new constitution stating states would have more rights than the central government. It also protected them and guaranteed to have slavery for the states.

When Governor Sam Houston refused to take an oath of allegiance to the Confederacy, the Texas Secession Convention removed him from office. In April 1861, Confederate troops fired upon U.S. troops at Fort Sumter, South Carolina, marking the beginning of the Civil War.

Bumper Sticker Create an original bumper sticker to reflect your support of Texas joining the Confederate States of America. 1. Clever/Creative/”Catchy” SLOGAN. 2. Color 3. Illustration, symbol, design & one fact or reason to support your point of view. (Anyone seeing it should be able to determine the point you are trying to convey!)