The event that was seen as the last straw before Texas choose to secede was the election of Abraham Lincoln and his anti-slavery platform.
Texas wanted to secede from the Union.
South Carolina, Florida, Mississippi, Louisiana, Texas, Alabama, Georgia.
Texas
Texas was the seventh state to secede.
Mexico
Because the Republican win meant that there could be no new slave-states, and the South would always be outvoted in Congress if they stayed in the USA.
Abraham Lincoln was not on the ballot in Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Louisiana, Mississippi, North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee and Texas.
no I know Texas does not, but the others? Texas does have the right to divide into up to 5 state if it wants, but cannot secede.
In 1861
No, it was North Carolina.
Texas seceded from the Union making it the seventh state to secede.