Reconstruction
Abolished Slavery
What is the 13th amendment?
The first and third presidents of Texas
Who is Sam Houston?
The event after Texas Independence
What is Texas Annexation?
The belief States should govern themselves and decide on issues like land and labor.
What is State's Rights?
Increased Slave labor
What is the effect of the cotton gin?
Gave all men the right to vote
What is the 15th Amendment?
They mistreated the Cherokee and forced their removal.
Who is Mirabeau Lamar?
The belief that the U.S. had the right to expand west.
What is Manifest Destiny?
The last battle of the Civil War.
What is the Battle of Palmito Ranch?
A device used to separate cotton seeds from the plant.
What is the cotton gin?
Made all men citizens
What is the 14th amendment?
They treated the Natives well
Who is Sam Houston?
The Rio Grande
What is the border after the U.S.-Mexican war?
He did not think Texas would win the war.
What is Sam Houston's reason for NOT wanting to secede?
The inventor of the cotton gin.
Who is Eli Whitney?
Another form of slavery
What is Sharecropping?
The 2nd president of the Republic of Texas
Who is Mirabeau Lamar?
The Nueces River
What is the border before the U.S. Mexican War?
States' Rights, to preserve slavery and the love of Texas.
What are the reasons Texas joined the confederacy?
Helped produce cotton faster.
What is the cotton gin?
They provided free enslaved people with food, shelter, medicine, education, and jobs.
What is the Freedman's Bureau?
What is the Republic of Texas?
Texas debt, conflict with Mexico, and upset the balance of free states and slave states.
What are the reasons why the U.S. did not want to annex Texas?
The union captured Gavelston port causing a blockade and the Confederacy won it back.
What is the Battle of Galveston?
This made the south wealthy.
What is cotton?