Vocabulary
A president frees someone from a punishment.
What is the meaning of pardon?
The Govner of Texas who was kicked out of office because he was devoted to the Union.
Who was Sam Houston.
The date celebrated as the anniversary of Emacnipation Day for enslaved people in Texas.
What is Juneteenth or what happened on June 19th?
To cancel.
What is nullify?
Law that enforced all the slaves in the Confederacy are free.
What is the Emancipation Proclimation?
A local law or piece of legislation.
What is an ordinance?
The 16th president of the United States of America. And didn't want the spread of slavery to new territories.
Who was Abraham Lincoln?
Laws to provide critical services to formerly enslaved people.
What was the Freedmans Bureau?
To end
What is ceased.
The site where General Robert E. Lee's surrender to General Ulysses S. Grant.
What is Appomattox Court House, Virginia.
The period following the Civil war.
What is the reconstruction?
Succeeded Abraham Lincoln as the 17th president.
Who was Andrew Johnson?
The day President Ulysses S. Grant signed an act declaring congressional reconstruction in Texas ended.
What is March 30, 1870?
A formally enslaved person.
What is a freedman?
Site of a crucial port for the Confedarcy.
What is Galveston?
A group who believed Congress should direct reconstruction.
What is a radical republican?
Assasinated President Abraham Lincoln.
Who was John Wilkes Booth?
Democrats won the majority of seats in the states legislature.
What is 1872?
Laws restricting rights to African Americans.
What are black codes?
A piece of legislation enforcing that all men from the ages of 18-35 be soldiers in the military.
What was the law of Conscription.
A white Southner who supported reconstruction.
What is a scalawag?
Appointed Texas Govner after the war.
Who was Andrew J. Hamilton?
The Ku Klux Klan was founded in Tennessee.
What was 1866?
A drug used off fighting diseases such a as malaria and other fevers.
What is Quinine?
The most common reason of death for a soldier.
What is disease?