Causes
The Missouri Compromise, Compromise of 1850, and Dred Scott Decision can all be categorized under this cause of the Civil War.
What is slavery?
I was president of the Union, while I was president of the Confederacy.
Who is Abraham Lincoln and Jefferson Davis?
This document made the fight for equality part of the Civil War.
What is the Gettysburg Address?
This was the first battle of the civil war, occurring when southerners in South Carolina attacked a U.S. fort following succession.
This is when the U.S. Civil War occurred.
What is 1861-1865?
Identifying with the region of the U.S. you found yourself in instead of with the country as a whole led to this cause of the Civil War.
What is sectionalism?
I was the 9th Governor of Texas in 1861. Following my political service I joined the Confederate army.
Who is Francis Lubbock?
This document grants suffrage to all men of a certain age, however laws were passed in states that would prevent this for the most part until the 1950s/1960s.
What is the Fifteenth Amendment?
This battle was consider the most one-sided Confederate win of the Civil War when 47 Texans took on over 4,000 Yankees with only 6 canons.
What is the Battle of Sabine Pass?
This important waterway was controlled by the Union following the Battle of Vicksburg causing the Confederacy to be split in half.
What is the Mississippi River?
These causes constitute the 3Ss of the Civil War.
What is slavery, sectionalism, & states' rights?
I was the Governor of Texas in 1860 who refused to sign an oath to the Confederacy, so I was removed from office.
Who is Sam Houston?
This document outlines what constitutes a U.S. citizen granting former slaves citizenship as well as giving them equal protection under the law.
What is the Fourteenth Amendment?
This battle was fought on the Rio Grande 5 weeks after the Confederacy had surrender, making it the last land battle of the Civil War.
What is the Battle of Palmito Ranch?
This is when the current Constitution of Texas was written following their loss of the Civil War.
What is 1876?
The belief of seceding states that the federal government should not intervene in a state's decisions on issues such as tariffs and slavery.
What is states' rights?
Also known as Popular Sovereignty.
I was in charge of a Texas Brigade that fought with Robert E. Lee himself. I was at the Battle of Gettysburg and today Texas has a fort named for me.
Who is John Bell Hood?
This document gave slaves in rebelling states (Confederacy) their freedom making the focus of the Civil War on the free of all people, while this document made slavery illegal except as a form of punishment throughout the United States.
What is the Emancipation Proclamation, and the Thirteenth Amendment?
What is the Battle of Galveston?
This is why Texans supported seceding from the Union in 1860.
What is they felt that slavery was vital to the economy of Texas?
This cause of the civil war resulted from southern states belief that powers not delegated by the Constitution to the national government were reserved to the states/people. It's based off the 10th Amendment.
What is states' rights?
I planned the Battle of Galveston and was commander of Texas Confederate forces.
Who is John B. Magruder?
This document was considered a win for slaveowners. It said that people of African descent were not citizens, the U.S. could not ban slavery in territories, and that the Fifth Amendment protected slaveowner's rights to their property.
What is the Dred Scott Decision?
List the battles fought in Texas during the Civil War in chronological order.
Battle of Galveston
Battle of Sabine Pass
Battle of Palmito Ranch
During the Civil War Confederate cotton farmers replaced their crops with this.
What is corn and beans?
They weren't able to move the cotton for profit, and they needed to feed the Confederate army. Cotton growth would rise again following the Civil War.