Texas History
A fort in San Antonio Texas, which was the site of a major battle which resulted in Mexican victory during the Texas Revolution.
What is The Alamo?
Someone who strongly opposes the institution of slavery.
What is an Abolitionist?
An amendment to the U.S. Constitution which outlawed the use of slavery.
What is the 13th Amendment?
An economic practice where a land owner allows the tenant to pay rent with crops grown on the land.
The date Texas was officially annexed as a United States territory.
What is 1845?
A system of transporting and hiding runaway slaves in the south to aid in their journey to freedom.
What is the Underground Railroad?
A series of political, social, and economic changes which occurred after abolishing slavery which followed the end of the civil war.
What is Reconstruction?
A major trail system which starts in Missouri and extends westward which was used for American settlers seeking new opportunities.
What is the Oregon Trail?
The final decisive battle in the Texas Revolutionary War which ended in a Texan victory following the defeat and surrender of Mexican President Santa Anna.
What is the Battle of San Jacinto?
President responsible for the Emancipation Proclamation and the Gettysburg Address.
He took office after President Abraham Lincoln was assassinated in 1865.
What is Andrew Johnson?
The largest land acquisition from France during 1803 which nearly tripled the size of the United States
What is the Louisiana Purchase?
An important historical figure who brought some 300 settling families into the newly developing lands of Texas, under control of the Mexican Government.
What is Stephen Austin?
This man was the leader of the Confederate army during the Civil War.
What is Robert E. Lee?
A series of policies and laws on the south to limit the developing freedom of the newly emancipated African Americans.
What are Black Codes/ Jim Crow laws?
Huge deposits of gold discovered at Sutter's Mill, California which aided in Westward expansion and economic prosperity.
What is the California Gold Rush?
An important document written during the Texas Revolution which incorporated parts of U.S. and Mexican law.
What is the Texas Constitution?
The place where Confederate General Robert E. Lee surrendered his army to Union General Ulysses S. Grant.
What is Appomattox Courthouse?
An amendment to the U.S. constitution which prohibits denying any citizens' right to vote based on race, color, or occupation.
What is the 15th Amendment?
The second president of the United States, also being credited as one of the authors of the Declaration of Independence.
What is John Adams?