Dates
This is the date that Texas received news that slavery had ended.
What is Juneteenth (June 19, 1865)?
This Amendment emancipated all slaves in the U.S.
What is the 13th Amendment?
This battle marked the first shots fired during the Civil War.
What is the Battle of Fort Sumter?
This group was working to give former slave economic independence during Reconstruction.
What was the Freedmen's Bureau?
This is another word for withdrawing from the Union.
What is Secession?
According to this Compromise, all new territories above the 36/30 line in Texas would be free.
What is the Missouri Compromise of 1820?
This amendment made African Americans United States citizens.
What is the 14th Amendment?
What is the Battle of the Appomattox Court House?
During Reconstruction, this group placed Texas under military rule until certain requirements for readmission were met.
Who were the Radical Republicans?
These are the two flags that flew over Texas during the Civil War.
What are the United States and Confederate flags?
The secession convention decided that Texas would secede in this year.
What is 1861?
This amendment gave African Americans the right to vote.
What is the 15th Amendment?
During this battle of the Civil War, the Union blckaded Texas Ports, but the battle ended when the Confederate Army retook control.
What is the Battle of Galveston?
This was one thing that Texas had to do in order to rejoin the United States during Reconstruction.
What is write a new state constitution?
This was the group that saw increased power and authority during the Civil War due to men fighting in battles.
Who were women?
This is the time frame of the Civil War and Reconstruction in the U.S.
What is 1861-1877?
These are the amendments that Texans initially refused to ratify after the Civil War.
What are the 14th and 15th?
This was the last battle of the Civil War in Texas.
What is the Battle of Palmito Ranch?
Black codes, Texas Constitution of 1866, and creation of the Freedmen's Bureau.
What were some of the effects of Reconstruction on Texas?
This was the main reason that Texas entered the Civil War.
What was the effect of abolition on the Texas economy?
This was the year that Texas wrote a Constitution that was accepted by the United States.
What is 1869?
After Texas was forced to write a new constitution under control of Radical Republicans, which amendment were they forced to ratify?
15th Amendment. Right to Vote.
During this battle, The Confederates in Texas prevented the Union army from taking control of the river boundary between Texas and Louisiana.
What is the Sabine Pass?
During Reconstruction, this was probably the biggest effect on agriculture in Texas.
What was the lack of slave labor?
This former president of the Republic of Texas was against secession prior to the Civil War.
Who is Sam Houston?