Texas Secedes
Texans Fight for the Confederacy
The Civil War Affects Life at Home
The Confederacy
The Civil War
100
A tax placed on imported or exported goods.
What is a tariff?
100
Action to stop transportation of goods or people into or out of an area.
What is a blockade?
100
A person who punishes criminals or takes control without authority to do so.
What is a vigilante?
100
The first state to secede from the Union.
What is South Carolina?
100
Won the election of 1860.
Who is Abraham Lincoln?
200
An official order.
What is an ordinance?
200
The enlisting of persons for required service in the armed forces.
What is a draft?
200
A secret society in Texas who supported the Union who suffered 40 hangings.
What is the Peace Party?
200
Ethnic group in Central Texas who opposed secession.
Who are Germans?
200
Slaves taken from Southern states and brought to Texas during the Civil War in fear of the Union Army.
What are refugees?
300
Refused to take a new oath of office to the Confederacy.
Who is Sam Houston?
300
Referred to Texas Confederate soldiers as "My Texans"
Who is Robert E. Lee?
300
The economy of Texas suffered because people were not able to sell this crop.
What is cotton?
300
Died in 1863 in his Steamboat House.
Who is Sam Houston?
300
One of the most important ports in Texas that was captured by the Union and taken back by the Confederacy.
What is Galveston?
400
Political Party who supported farmers in the South.
What is the Democratic Party?
400
Confederate volunteers that needed to bring their own shotgun, Colt revolver, Bowie knife, saddle, bridle, and blanket when they reported for duty.
Who is Terry's Texas Rangers?
400
Occurred at a Appomattox Courthouse on April 9, 1865.
What is Confederacy surrender.
400
The largest Confederate prison camp west of the Mississippi River.
What is Camp Ford?
400
Union plan to suffocate the Southern Economy and war effort.
What is the Anaconda Plan?
500
Offered 2700 Union troops to Sam Houston to keep Texas in the Union.
Who is Abraham Lincoln?
500
Confederate soldiers who received their name in honor of their first commander, John Bell Hood.
What is Hood's Texas Brigade?
500
Signed the official surrender of the Trans-Mississippi area, including Texas on June 2, 1865.
Who is Edmund Kirby?
500
Political Party that was weakened with multiple candidates for the Election of 1860.
What is the Democratic Party?
500
A Texas county that voted for secession from the Union in 1861.
What is Caldwell?
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