Texas Symbols
The Pecan Tree
What is the state tree of Texas?
Fort Sumpter
Slave states that stayed in the Union
Uncle Tom's Cabin
What is the novel that showed the horrors of slavery to the North?
Side that won all battles in Texas?
What is the confederacy?
Mockingbird
What is the state bird of Texas?
State's rights/popular sovereignty
What is the belief that the federal government shouldn't have all of the power?
Industrial
What jobs did most people have in the north?
California entered the union as a free slave while Texas entered as a slave state.
What is the compromise of 1850?
Battle that used "cotton clad" ships
What is the battle of Galveston?
Friendship
What is the state motto for Texas?
The 6th flag to fly over Texas
What was is the confederate flag?
To withdraw from a union or separate from something.
What is to secede?
The act that left the question of slavery up to popular sovereignty.
What is the Kansas Nebraska Act?
What is the Battle of Sabine Pass?
Lonestar State
What is the nickname for Texas?
The governor that did not want Texas to secede?
free states
What is the Union (North)?
The president that wanted to stop the spread of slavery?
Who is Abraham Lincoln?
Considered the last battle of the Civil War
What is the battle of Palmito Ranch?
Bluebonnet
What is the state flower of Texas?
February 1, 1861
What is the date Texas joined the Confederacy?
Appomattox courthouse
The first state to leave (secede) from the Union.
What is South Carolina?
For two months Union forces controlled this port in Texas
What is Gaveston?