Vocabulary
Causes of the Civil War
Civil War Two
People
North\South
100
To withdraw.
What does Secede mean?
100
They angered southeners and were thought to be unfair.
Why were Tariffs a cause of the Civil War?
100
Mostly Radical Republicans
What is the State Legislature mostly made up of?
100
Sam Houston
Who was the Texas Governer?
100
Union
What were the North states called?
200
Formally approves as a law.
What does Ratify do?
200
Slavery was a big part of the South and the Southerners felt it was going to be abolished. Some northerners didn't want slavery to spread.
Why was Slavery a cause of the Civil War?
200
Ku Klux Klan
What does the "KKK" mean?
200
President Abraham Lincon.
Who was the President of the United States and the Union while the war was in action?
200
The Confederate States of America.
What were the Southern states called?
300
A former Slave.
What is a Freedmen?
300
Because the Southerners thought Lincon had a hidden agenda to abolish slavery and Lincon thought States Rights would be unconstitutional.
Why was Lincon's Election a cause of the Civil War?
300
He had to climb into the window of the building?
What did Coke have to do to get into office when Davis wouldn't leave?
300
Jefferson Davis.
Who was the Southern President after they seceeded?
400
The day most Texas African American slaves celebrate as the day they found they were free.
What is Junteenth?
400
Because the South wanted the states to make their own laws and their governments should have more power. While the North thought the Federal government should make the laws and be more powerful.
Why was State's Rights a cause of the civil war?
400
They were Former Confederates.
What were many elected officials?
400
General Robert E. Lee
Who Commanded the Confederate Army?
500
Declaration issued in 1863 freeing all slaves in the Confederate States.
What is the Emancipation Proclamation?
500
The North thought it was illegal and became angry.
Why was the South seceeding a big cause of the Civil War?
500
Black Codes
What was passed to limit African American rights?
500
The Hood's Texas Brigade and the Terry's Texas Rangers.
Who were the two groups who patrolled Texas?