Events Leading to Civil War
Anti-Slavery Book written by Harriet Beecher Stowe
Uncle Tom's Cabin
The battle that was the turning point in the Civil War
Battle of Gettysburg
Slaves in Texas finally free. Holiday also known as Emancipation Day or freedom for the slaves in Texas day
Juneteenth- June 19th, 1865
Supplied help and legal aid to former slaves in post Civil War Texas
Freedman's Bureau
This made poor farmers and former slaves in a cycle of poverty and was another form of slavery
what is sharecropping
The year that Texas became a Republic
1836
What year did the Civil War take place
1861 - 1865
What happened to Sam Houston after he refused to sign an oath of secession?
He was removed as Governor of Texas
Assassinated Abraham Lincoln
John Wilkes Booth
a secret organization of white men formed after the Civil War that used violence and terror against African Americans
what is kkk
Court Case that ruled:
African Americans are property NOT people
Slavery is legal everywhere
African Americans have zero rights under the U.S Constitution
Dred Scott vs. Sanford
What caused the Civil War
Slavery
State's Rights
Last battle of the Civil War
Palmito Ranch
Became President after Abraham Lincoln was assassinated in 1865
a white Southerner who supported Reconstruction
what is scalawag
Elected President of the U.S in 1860
Abraham Lincoln
Battle that gave the Union control of the Mississippi River in 1863
Siege of Vicksburg
March 2, 1861 Texas leaves the union. The social studies word for leave is...
Secession
Name of the laws passed in the southern states to prevent African Americans from receiving their civil rights
Black Codes- Jim Crow Laws
This system forced prisoners to work on plantations
What is convict lease
This person attempted to start a slave rebellion, was hung for treason, most importantly divided the North and the South to the brink of war.
John Brown
Name the 2 Generals of the Civil War, Union and Confederate.
Robert E. Lee - Confederate General
Ulysses S. Grant - Union General
Galveston
13th, 14th and 15th Amendments to the U.S Constitution
13th- Abolish Slavery
14th- Granted Citizenship
15th- African American Men right to vote
What were the two names of reconstruction plans
what is Presidential and congressional