Civil War
Production declined during the war, but increased a lot in the years that followed.
What is cotton production in Texas?
During the Civil War this event led to increased production of corn and wheat.
What is the need to feed soldiers?
Served as a General in the Confederate Army, the nineteenth Governor of Texas and the President of Texas A&M University.
Who is Lawrence Sullivan?
Slavery is prohibited in this Constitution.
What is the Texas Constitution?
The right of the people to decide issues by voting.
The will of the people.
The Democratic principle that provides for the election of government officials.
What is popular sovereignty?
This battle took place along the Rio Grande River after the surrender to the Confederacy and was the last military conflict of the Civil War.
What is the Battle of Palmito Ranch?
This issue allowed continued fighting after the Civil War was over and a delay in the slaves being emancipated.
What is slow communication?
The anti-slavery president that was elected in 1861.
Who is Abraham Lincoln?
These rights are guaranteed by Article I 30b of the Texas Constitution.
What are the rights of crime victims?
Individual rights are the inclusion of this document in the Texas Constitution.
What is the Bill of Rights?
The way Texas felt about slavery during the American Civil War.
What is citizens were divided on the Issue of Slavery?
The Union took Galveston in this battle in October 1862.
What is the Battle of Galveston?
The White abolitionist that raided a Federal Arsenal in Harpers Ferry, Virginia.
Who is John Brown?
This Constitution does not make mention of slavery.
What is the U.S. Constitution?
The way the Texas Constitution and the U.S. Constitution both divided government.
What are three branches?
The year the Texas joined the Confederacy.
What is 1861?
This battle was a huge victory for the Confederate Army in September 1863 that resulted in the capture of Union Soldiers by Texans.
What is the Battle of Sabine Pass?
This slave led a revolt and launched a rebellion in Southern Virginia that resulted in the killing of approximately sixty white people.
Who is Nat Turner?
The main reason Texans were in favor of leaving the Union.
What is they considered slavery important to the economy?
These taxes help pay for state and local government in Texas.
What is property and sales tax?
After the Civil War most former slaves made a living doing this.
What is being a sharecropper?
This battle actually took place after the Civil War and was won by the Confederates on April 12,1865.
What is the Battle of Palmito Branch?
The General that General Robert E. Lee surrendered to.
Who is General Ulysses S. Grant?
The action taken by the judicial branch to check the power of legislature.
What is declaring laws unconstitutional?
This gives both federal and state power.
What is Federalism?