Vocab.
What is a temporary government?
Provisional Government.
Who was Andrew J. Hamilton?
A former state representative who has represented Texas in Congress.
Where did the Civil War take place?
Southern Economy.
Why was 1861-1874 important?
Civil war was under reconstruction.
Who was the first president?
Abraham Lincoln
What does 'to cancel' mean?
Nullify.
What was the name of a former slave who became a sheriff and a state senator?
Walter Moses Burton.
What did the Civil War mess up?
The government, society, and impacted Texas.
What happened on June 19,1865?
Granger's set off great celebration among the African Americans.
Who took Abraham Lincoln's place when he died?
Andrew Johnson
What is a freedman?
A formerly enslaved person.
What did General Philip Sheridan control?
The 5th district.
Who was the war between?
The North and South.
What year was it when all the slaves knew they were freed?
1675
What was one of Johnson's requirements?
Everyone had the right to regain. Most white Southerners only had to swear an oath to the United States.
What was the secret organization of white men called?
The Ku Klux Klan.
Who was Oran Roberts?
A president of the Texas Secession Convention of 1861.
How long did the civil war last?
4 years long.
When did the secession crisis begin?
1861
What did the Congress create for the freedman's bureau?
To help freed people.
What does Juneteenth mean?
June 19th, the date celebrated as the anniversary of Emancipation Day for enslaved people in Texas.
Who was the president in 1861?
Abraham Lincoln.
When did the civil war end?
In Spring of 1865.
When were the Confederates in control?
June 1866
Instead of writing the Constitution, what did the Government do?
They delegates amended the Constitution Texas had before the Civil War.