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This allowed the territories of Kansas and Nebraska to decide if they wanted to be free or slave-holding states.
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Declared that slaves were not considered citizens and could not "sue for rights".
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Pro-successionists met for a convention to discuss succession. Sam Houston opposed leaving the Union. People who had this opinion, like Houston, were called Unionists.
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Texas has now adopted a seccession ordinance.
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Texas citizens have voted to leave the Union 46,153 to 14,747.
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Texas has now joined the Confederate States of America. They are now the 7th state to leave the Union.
