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What economic system in the South relied heavily on enslaved labor?
An agrarian economy that depended on enslaved labor
What year did Texas secede from the Union?
1861
Confederate forces recaptured this Texas port in 1863.
Galveston
What agency helped freedmen with food, schools, and medical care?
Freedmen’s Bureau
A formerly enslaved person is called what?
Freedman
What political belief said states could ignore federal laws?
States’ rights
Name one way Texas supported the Confederacy.
Texas supplied food, soldiers, horses, and trade through Mexico
47 Texans defeated a large Union invasion at this battle.
Sabine Pass
What did the 13th Amendment do?
Abolished slavery
System where farmers rented land and paid in crops.
Sharecropper
Name one reason why slavery caused major conflict between North & South.
The South’s economy depended on slavery; the North opposed its expansion.
How did women’s roles change during the Civil War?
Women took on new roles (ran businesses/farms, produced goods, worked on the home front)
What was the final battle of the Civil War?
Palmito Ranch
What rights did the 14th Amendment guarantee?
Citizenship & equal protection
Laws that restricted African Americans during Reconstruction.
Black Codes
What do we call when a state leaves the Union?
Secession
What Texas holiday celebrates the end of slavery?
Juneteenth
What was the Union strategy blocking Confederate ports called?
Blockade
What right did the 15th Amendment give?
Voting rights for African American men
What is the term for the people and work on the home front?
Homefront
What term describes regional division between North, South, and West?
Sectionalism
What was the main reason Texas chose to secede?
To protect slavery / states’ rights
This 1850 compromise tried to settle disputes over new territories
Compromise of 1850
What group used violence to intimidate African Americans?
Ku Klux Klan
Name the government agency that built schools for freedmen.
Freedmen’s Bureau