Vocabulary chapter 17
What is it called when you bring back a union?
Reconstruction
Who was the new president after Lincoln was assassinated in 1865?
Andrew Johnson
Texas at the end of the war?
No large battles had been fought on Texas soul and union forces had not launched major yet the war left Texans
Pacifism
The belief that it is Wong to use violence to settle conficts
Buffalo soldiers fight the last battles?
When general Sherman toured Texas in 1872
A formerly enslaved person is called?
Freedman
The Democrats regain control?
In 1872 Democrat’s won all the seats in the state.
Military reconstruction in Texas?
When general Sheridan took charge of the fifth district he assigned control over Texas
Sinew
Storing tissue that connects muscles to bones
What is nullify
To cancel
Texas rejoins the union?
The radical republicans candidate for Texas governor Edmund J. Davis.
African Americans exercise their rights?
African Americans were determined to excercise
Tactic
A course of action used to achieve a goal
What is a carpetbagger?
A northern in the south working for a reconstruction government
What plans did Licoln and Johnson have for restoring the Union after the civil war?
The former confederate state had to be replaced the governments loyal to the United States therefore they could join back into the union
The republicans in change?
Governor Davis exercised great power while in office he and the legislature improved Texas
Segregated
Separated based on membership of n a racial or ethnic group
What is a radical republican?
A republican that believed that congress should direct reconstruction
How and why did congress take control of reconstruction from the president?
Freed people during reconstruction?
After the civil war most freed people continued to live in rural
Buffalo soldier
An African Americans soldier serving in the western United States after the civil war