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Important Info.
100
The #1 Cause of the Civil War
What is Sectionalism?
100
This law required all citizens to turn in runaway slaves
What is the Fugitive Slave Law of 1850?
100
The commander of the Confederate Troops
What is Robert E. Lee
100
  • September 8, 1863, Union soldiers attacked, but the Davis Guards fought back, marking a complete victory for the Confederacy

What is the Battle of Sabine Pass?

100
The Confederacy wanted an alliance with this trading country during the Civil War
What is Great Britian
100

 The first elected governor of Texas during the Civil War

Who was Francis Lubbock?

100

Many in support of the Union were violently attacked, and some were arrested and executed.

What is a social effect of the Civil War?

200
The idea that states have the ability to choose which federal laws to follow
What is States Rights
200
This woman wrote Uncle Tom's Cabin
Who is Harriett Beecher Stowe?
200
This General eventually went on to become President
Who is Ulysses S. Grant
200
  • Confederate General Robert E. Lee surrendered on April 9, 1865, but Confederate forces did not stop fighting for another month because word spread slowly.
  • May 12, 1865 – the Union army moved inland to occupy Brownsville.
  • Collided with Confederate troops led by John S. Ford, who captured over 100 Union troops
  • Union troops informed the Confederate troops that the war was over.

What is the Battle of Palmito Ranch?

200
Southern economics depended on this practice to be able to sustain their farms and plantations
What is slavery
200

The group meet on January 28, 1861, and voted 166 to 8 to sever ties with the union.

What is the Texas Secession Convention?

200

Transportation was disrupted as stagecoaches became crowded and ran behind schedule and roads and bridges went unrepaired.

What is an economic effect of the Civil War?

300
This book helped teach the Union about slavery in the South
What is Uncle Tom's Cabin
300
Slaves that sought freedom could take this route
What is the Underground Railroad?
300

This document is still used today as the supreme compilation of laws for the state of Texas.

What is the Constitution of 1876?

300
This is the first official battle of the Civil War
What is Fort Sumter
300
This state overwhelmingly sought to secede from the Union after Lincoln was elected, citing the need for slavery to continue in their state for it to survive
What is Texas
300

What was Houston’s position on Texas secession?

Houston was a loyal Unionist who was against the idea of letting slavery expand and also expressed that the South had little if any chance of winning.

300

Despite opposition from Governor Sam Houston, Texans voted to approve an ordinance of secession, and with that Texas seceded from the Union and joined the Confederacy.

What is a political effect of the Civil War?

400
Loyalty to one specific region or state
What is Sectionalism?
400
This unit was the most decorated African-American Unit in the Civil War
What is the 54th Regiment?
400
This leader delivered the Emancipation Proclamation and the Gettysburg Address
Who is Abraham Lincoln
400
  • Confederate General John B. Magruder recaptured it by converting two steamboats into gunboats by lining their sides with cotton bales, earning the nickname “Cotton Clads”
  • January 1, 1863 – General John B. Magruder and his men captured several hundred Union soldiers.

What is the Battle of Galveston?

400
This side's population had the advantage during the Civil War with more fighters and more people producing supplies back home
What is Union
400

How did the Union blockade affect Texans?

What is shortages of goods, such as salt, coffee, medicine, clothing, shoes, and farm equipment resulted and homespun clothing became common.

400
  • Freedmen’s Bureau was created to assist newly freed people with the transition from slavery to freedom. The Bureau enacted policies that essentially forced Blacks to continue to work on farms and plantations where many of them had been enslaved. Blacks worked for wages or for shares and the practice of sharecropping expanded.

What is an economic effect of Reconstruction?

500
Taxes placed on imported or exported goods
What are tariffs?
500

Ultimately, enslaved African Americans in Texas achieved freedom with the arrival of Union forces in Texas on June 19, 1865.

What is Juneteenth or Emancipation Day in Texas? 

500

Sam Houston, who refused to take the oath of loyalty to the Confederate States of America, was deposed and replaced by

Who is lieutenant governor, Edward Clark?

500
The Monitor and the Merrimack were prime examples of this battle technology
What are Iron-clad ships
500

A group of military units used to restrict access to an area

What is a blockade

500

List the three effects of the Civil War on Texas.

What are political, social, and economic effects.

500

The removal of former Confederates and Congressional Reconstruction facilitated Texans taking steps towards being readmitted to the United States. This required the writing of a new constitution and ratification of the Fourteenth Amendment and Fifteenth Amendment. A new constitution was adopted in 1869 and in February of 1870 Texas was readmitted to the Union.

What is a political effect of Reconstruction?

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