Causes of the Civil War
Loyalty to your region (North or South) more than the whole country.
What is sectionalism?
The act of leaving the United States.
What is secession?
Another word for a draft—forcing men into the army by law.
What is conscription?
The Union strategy used to stop ships from entering and exiting Confederate ports.
What is a blockade?
The term for civilians’ daily life and struggles away from the battlefield.
What is the home front?
The most hotly contested issue between North and South.
What is slavery?
The first state to secede in mid-December 1860
What is South Carolina?
A way some men avoided service by paying someone else to go in their place.
What is hiring a substitute?
Texas’s most important port city that was captured, then retaken by Confederates.
What is Galveston?
Because cloth was scarce, southern women began weaving this loose-fitting fabric.
What is homespun?
The movement that said slavery was immoral and should be outlawed.
What is abolition (the abolition movement)?
The meeting in Austin called to decide whether Texas should leave the Union and join the Confederacy.
What is the Texas Secession Convention?
German Texans in the Hill Country formed this group to protect farms and ranches.
What is the Union Loyal League?
Cotton bales were used to “armor” steamboats—these ships were called _____.
What are cottonclads?
Imported goods like coffee and tea were scarce mainly because of the _____.
What is the blockade?
The antislavery political party formed in the mid-1850s that alarmed many Southerners.
What is the Republican Party?
The document Texas signed to cancel annexation and reestablish Texas as a separate nation.
What is the Texas Ordinance of Secession?
This 1862 clash happened when German Unionists tried to reach Mexico to avoid being forced into Confederate service.
What is the Battle of the Nueces?
A key Texas location the Union tried to invade through in 1863.
What is Sabine Pass?
The biggest shortage in Texas happened because thousands of war ____ came to Texas needing housing.
What are refugees?
The belief that states (not the federal government) should make most decisions.
What are states' rights?
The Texas governor who refused to take the oath to the Confederacy and was replaced.
Who is Sam Houston?
This famous Texas cavalry unit became known as “shock troops.”
Who are Terry’s Texas Rangers?
The place where the war’s end and freedom announcement in Texas is tied to (Juneteenth).
What is Galveston?
Texas could still move cotton across this river into Mexico to trade with Europe.
What is the Rio Grande?