Important People
Events
Issues
Cause and Effects
Vocabulary
100
President of the United States during the Civil War
Abraham Lincoln
100
Confederate and Union soldiers fought in this
What is the Civil War
100
This issue was the main cause of the Civil War
Slavery
100
Because the Civil War destroyed parts of the south, the government issued this plan to rebuild the north and south into one country again.
Reconstruction
100
To trade one product for a different product
Barter
200
He lived in two worlds, half Comanche and half white
Quanah Parker
200
This erupted when barbed wire kept cattle drives from grazing on land and access to water sources.
Fence Cutting Wars
200
The executive order written by Lincoln to free all slaves in rebelling states
Emancipation Proclamation
200
This ended because of the windmill, barbed wire, and railroads
Open Range
200
What Texas did from the United States at the beginning of the Civil War
Secede
300
Invented the cotton gin
Eli Whitney
300
During the Civil War, which battle involved Texans hiding behind cotton and sinking Union ships?
Battle of Galveston
300
To keep cattle drivers from stomping on crops and access to water sources, this was invented.
Barbed Wire
300
Because many people, black and white, were poor after the Civil War, these two types of labor emerged
Tenant farmer and Sharecropper
300
The unsettled land in west Texas where Indians and settlers fought
Frontier
400
Confederate general during the Civil War
Robert E. Lee
400
Court case that ruled African Americans did not have the rights of citizens
Dred scott vs. Sanford
400
This kept the balance of power in the U.S. by admitting Maine as a free state and Missouri as a slave state
Missouri Compromise
400
What technological innovation caused the number of commercial farms to increase after the Civil War?
The Railroad
400
People moving from farms to cities
Urbanization
500
Who was the governor of Texas during the Civil War?
Francis Lubbock
500
The battle that changed nothing and happened after Lee surrendered at Appomattax Va.
Battle of Palmito Ranch
500
This agreement established the present day border between New Mexico and Texas
Compromise of 1850
500
These 3 amendments were effects of Reconstruction
13, 14, 15, Free citizens vote
500
The name of the holiday that the freedom of African Americans was proclaimed. Today it is a cultural celebration with barbeques, picnics, and music
Juneteenth
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