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TX governor who took a leave of absence to command Texas troops during the Mexican-American War
J. Pickney Henderson
Vast area of land transferred from Mexico to the US at the end of the Mexican-American War
Mexican Cession
Governor of Texas who opposed secession
San Houston
Believed Confederate states were never legally out of the Union
Abraham Lincoln
Group that set strict standards for admitting Southern states back into the Union
Radical Republicans
A complete count of population at regular intervals
Census
Why the US Senate opposed the annexation treaty of 1844
Annexation would give slave states a political advantage, and they did not want to anger Mexico
Heroic Texan who ran a hospital in Galveston during the Civil War
Rosanna Osterman
General put in charge of the Fifth District, made up of Texas and Louisiana
Phillip Sheridan
The day enslaved Texans celebrated their freedom
Juneteenth
Texas joined the Union as the
28th state
President of the US, elected 1860
Abraham Lincoln
Refusal by a president or governor to approve a law
Veto
In the 1840s and 1850s, most European immigrants to Texas came from
Germany
Site of the last Civil War battle
Palmito Ranch
Derogatory term for Southern whites who supported Reconstruction
Scalawags
Thousand of immigrants came to Texas during the 1840s and 1850s, lured by these three main things
Cheap land, legalized slavery, and annexation
Derogatory term for Northerners who came to the South during Reconstruction
Carpetbaggers