Juneteenth and Freedom
June 19, 1965, also known as "Juneteenth," marked this significant event in Texas history.
What is the end of slavery in Texas?
This Republican President of the United States was the POTUS during the Civil War, but not during Reconstruction.
Who was Abraham Lincoln?
This was the year that Texas officially rejoined the Union.
What is 1870?
This governor was removed from his post for his disagreement over sucession.
Who is Sam Houston?
What are tariffs, the economy, and population?
This was one reason the South wanted to keep slavery.
What was their worry that there would not be enough workers to keep the farms and plantations going?
This is the amendment to the US Constitution that abolished slavery.
What is the 13th Amendment?
This what Southerners called a Northerner who moved to the South to try to make money during Reconstrution.
What is a Carpetbagger?
This battle was fought on the land and on the water.
What is the Battle of Galveston?
These were three reasons Texas suceeded from the Union.
What are: Fear that slavery would be aboloshed,
The election of Abraham Lincoln, and
The sucession of other Southern states?
This means that states have more power over themselves than the federal government.
What is "states rights?"
This is the amendment guaranteeing citizenship to African Americans born in the United States.
What is the 14th Amendment?
George Thompson Ruby and Matthew Gaines both served in this elected office.
What is Senator?
What are the 13th, 14th, and 15th amendments to the US Constitution?
This was one way in which transportation was affected by the Civil War.
What is, railroad construction slowed down and even stopped?
This was the name of the federal ageny established in 1865 to help freedmen in Texas.
What was the Freedmen's Bureau?
This US Constitutional Amendment guarantees voting rights to all men, regardless of race.
What is the 15th Amendment?
These three branches of government are included in the Texas Constitution of 1876.
What are Executive, Legislative, and Judicial?
This is thought to be the last battle of the Civil War.
What is the Battle of Palmitto Ranch?
These were problems faced by the Freedmen's Bureau.
What are lack of funds and some attacks on agents by some Southerners?
This was the system where laborers worked land owned by others for a share of the crops.
What was sharecropping?
What is a Scalawag?
This is a phrase is included in the opening section of the Texas Bill of Rights.
FREEDOM OF SOVEREIGNTY OF STATE. Texas is a free and independent State, subject only to the Constitution of the United States...
These soldiers were put in place as punishment.
Who are the soldiers of the Battle of Sabine Pass?
This was one reason former slaves thought sharecropping would benefit them.
What was their belief that it would lead to land ownership?