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Re: Texasss secessionists launch petition drive for vote to break away |
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Posted by Dave on Mon Aug 31 07:09:49 2015, in response to Re: Texasss secessionists launch petition drive for vote to break away, posted by ClearAspect on Mon Aug 31 06:41:23 2015. What Texas once could do is divide itself into as many as five states, a privilege given to it as a unique condition of its annexation to the Union in 1845.In 1820, the Missouri Compromise had helped save the United States from splitting along sectional lines by defining where slavery could exist in the territory gained in the Louisiana Purchase. Specifically, slavery could exist south of the 36°30'N line of latitude, and no further west than Missouri. The territory claimed by Texas extended further north and west than the Missouri Compromise lines (well into present-day New Mexico and Colorado). Any states north or west of the Missouri Compromise lines would be free; in the others, a popular vote would determine whether slavery could exist. In 1850, Southerners wanted to exercise the provision to create another slave state from Texas to balance the admission of California as a free state. In one of the provisions of the Compromise of 1850, Texas was instead given a payout of $10 million to give up its northern and western claims. A few years later, the Kansas-Nebraska Act repealed the Missouri Compromise and made the issue of the boundaries a moot point. Although in theory Texas could still be divided into multiple states, any possibility of carving additional states from Texas ended when the Civil War settled the question of slavery once and for all. |
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