Words to Know
This term means to officially leave or separate from a group.
What is secede?
He was the President who believed slavery was NOT necessary for the Southern economy.
Who was Abraham Lincoln?
This side won the Civil War.
Who was the Union (or the North)?
This phrase refers to the six different countries that have ruled over Texas throughout its history.
What is "Six Flags over Texas"?
This amendment to the Constitution officially outlawed slavery in the United States.
What is the 13th Amendment?
This is a person who wanted to end slavery
What is an abolitionist?
He was the leader of the Union Army during the Civil War.
Who was Ulysses S. Grant?
The Civil War began in this year and ended in this year.
What are 1861 and 1865?
As more and more people wanted to buy cotton from Texas, plantation owners used more enslaved people for this reason.
What is to work in the fields to grow more cotton?
This famous document declared that all slaves in the Confederate states were free.
What is the Emancipation Proclamation?
This is a term used to describe a separation of people based on their race.
What is segregation?
He was the leader of the Confederate Army.
Who was Robert E. Lee?
This was the main economic difference between the North and the South.
What is the North focused on factories/industry while the South relied on farming?
This is the specific date that Texas officially rejoined the United States after the war.
What is March 30, 1870?
Texas and other Southern states had to rebuild their economies during Reconstruction because of war destruction and because they could no longer depend on this.
What is slavery?
This is a farmer who pays part of what they grow to a landowner.
What is a sharecropper?
This former slave escaped to freedom and made 19 trips back to help others escape using the Underground Railroad.
Who was Harriet Tubman?
This is the total number of Southern states that seceded to form the Confederacy.
What is 11?
This holiday is a Texas state celebration of the day enslaved people learned they were free.
What is Juneteenth?
The migration of settlers and the building of these caused more people to move West and take land from American Indians.
What are railroads?
This is an effort to stop ships from going in or out of a port.
What is a blockade?
This organization gave help to African Americans and white landowners with food, clothing, finding work, and education.
What was the Freedmen’s Bureau?
These were the three main issues that the North and South viewed differently, leading to war.
What are slavery, tariffs, and states’ rights?
These were the two specific rights granted to all males by the new Texas Constitution.
What are the right to vote and hold public office?
The way of life for Plains Indians was changed forever because of the destruction of this animal and forced removal to reservations.
What is the buffalo?