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Which of the following arguments best explains Texas’s decision to join the Confederacy during the Civil War?
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The best explanation is that Texas seceded primarily to protect slavery and the slave-based economic and social order.
Although leaders framed secession in terms of “states’ rights,” Texas’s Ordinance of Secession and contemporary statements make clear the immediate concern was the threat to slavery after Lincoln’s election. Texas’s economy (cotton and plantation agriculture), its settlers’ cultural ties to the Deep South, and fear of federal interference with slavery drove the decision to join the Confederacy.
Although leaders framed secession in terms of “states’ rights,” Texas’s Ordinance of Secession and contemporary statements make clear the immediate concern was the threat to slavery after Lincoln’s election. Texas’s economy (cotton and plantation agriculture), its settlers’ cultural ties to the Deep South, and fear of federal interference with slavery drove the decision to join the Confederacy.
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