Slavery
Causes
Advantages
Texas
Reconstruction
100
Allowing states to decide for themselves by vote whether or not to permit slavery.
What is popular sovereignty?
100
The northern states' economy depended on this.
What is manufacturing/industry/factories?
100
The states that had more advantages during the Civil War.
What is the Union (or the North)?
100
The governor when Texas voted to leave the Union.
Who is Sam Houston?
100
The period after the Civil War in which the south was restored to the Union.
What is reconstruction?
200
A person who wanted to end slavery.
What is abolitionist?
200
The southern states' economy depended on these larger farms.
What are plantations?
200
The form of transportation that gave the North an advantage during the Civil War.
What are railroads?
200
To withdraw from something, such as a nation.
What is secede?
200
The date that all slaves were freed in Texas.
What is Juneteenth?
300
The agreement that added California as a free state and enforced the Fugitive Slave Law.
What is the Compromise of 1850?
300
The southern states believed in the idea that states have the right to limit the power of the federal government.
What are states' rights?
300
This group of people, directly and indirectly, gave the north an advantage.
What are slaves?
300
The last battle of the Civil War.
What is Palmito Ranch?
300
The organization that assisted slaves after the Civil War.
What is the Freedmen's Bureau?
400
The agreement that admitted Maine as a free state and Missouri as a slave state.
What is the Missouri Compromise?
400
The slave that unsuccessfully sued for his freedom.
Who is Dred Scott?
400
The coast controlled by the South during the Civil War.
What is the Gulf Coast?
400
The Texas port occupied by the Union at the beginning of the Civil War.
What is Galveston?
400
Laws that limited the rights of African Americans.
What are black codes?
500
The decision that gave Kansas and Nebraska popular sovereignty.
What is the Kansas Nebraska Act?
500
The taxes on imported/exported goods the southern states objected.
What are tarriffs?
500
The general of the Confederate Army.
Who is Robert E Lee?
500
The name of the book Sam Houston's quote about secession came from.
What is "The Life of General Houston?"
500
The constitution that limited the power of the Texas governor and has had over 600 amendments.
What is the constitution of 1876?
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