Vocabulary
This vocabulary word means to leave or withdraw.
What is secede?
The belief that the interests of your regions or section are more important.
What is Sectionalism?
This vocabulary word to end or get rid of something.
What is abolish?
All political power is inherent in the ___________ .
What is people?
The South's economy was based on huge farms, known as ____________ .
What are plantations?
After the Civil War the nation took time to rebuild, this period of time is referred to as?
What is Reconstruction?
The South felt that slavery was ________ to their economy and way of life.
What is vital?
This Reconstruction amendment abolished slavery.
What is the 13th amendment?
This Texas Governor was against Secession and refused to take an oath to the Confederacy.
Who is Sam Houston?
This cash crop is known as "white gold".
What is cotton?
Slaves did not have these.
What are individual rights?
The argument that state power should be greater than federal(central) power.
What are states' rights?
This agency was created by Congress in order to help freed people.
What is the Freedman's Bureau?
Which branch of government has the power to make laws and has two houses, the Senate and House of Representatives?
What is the legislative branch?
The South's economy was based on planting which is know as ______________ .
What is agricultural?
This vocabulary word is a military strategy that block off and obstruct supplies.
What is a blockade?
The North wanted to impose higher __________ , this angered the South.
What are tariffs?
The Freedman's Bureau and the Texas Constitution of 1866 are both ___________ of Reconstruction.
What are effects?
What principle of government states that all political power comes from the people?
What is popular sovereignty?
The North's economy had factories, which means it was ___________ .
What is industrial?
A farmer who rents land and pays the landowner in crops. (leads to debt)
What is sharecropper?
All of the following happened during what era?
1. Sam Houston refuses to take Confederate oath.
2. Texas fights with the Confederacy and the Confederacy loses.
What is Civil War and Reconstruction era?
During Reconstruction, the Texas government had to write an new constitution that gives African American .....
What is the right to vote?
Both the Texas and U.S. Constitution separate the power among ___________ branches of government.
What is three?
The North had more _____________ than the South. This helped them win the war.
What are resources?