Compromises
The Missouri Compromise created a line at this line of latitude.
What is 36o30' N?
The reason Texas entered the Civil War.
What is its state's right to own slaves?
The reason Texas decided to leave the Union by seceding.
What is the right to own slaves?
The name of the president of the United States during the Civil War.
Who is Abraham Lincoln?
The name of the period of time following the civil war in which the country worked to put itself back together.
What is Reconstruction?
This new law said that any escaped slaves must be returned to their owners in the South or you would risk going to jail.
What is Fugitive Slave Law?
The Union barricaded this island so no supplies could get in or out after a battle and losing control of the island to the Confederates.
What is Galveston?
To secede is to:
What is leave the Union/United States?
The name of the secret way slaves could escape their plantations and run to the north where they could be free.
What is the Underground Railroad?
This group of people came together to help the freed slaves join society after they were released from slavery.
What is the Freedman's Bureau?
The Kansas Nebraska Act allowed popular sovereignty when deciding on the issue of slavery in new territories. Popular sovereignty is:
What is the people vote to decide?
At this battle, men defended Fort Griffin using cannons and luring the Union boats into the tight river channel.
What is the Battle of Sabine Pass?
This book angered people in the North and made them want to fight back against slavery.
What is Uncle Tom's Cabin?
The single event that led southern states to band together and secede.
What is the election of Abraham Lincoln?
The two main goals of the Freedman's Bureau were:
What are education and getting jobs?
This compromise created the Fugitive Slave Act and made slave markets illegal in the United States.
What is the Compromise of 1850?
This battle happened after the official end of the war near San Antonio where news traveled slowly so soldiers did not know the Confederacy had surrendered.
What it the Battle of Palmetto Ranch?
The name of the country Texas joined after it seceded from the United States.
What is the Confederate States of America?
This happened to Abraham Lincoln just days after the civil war ended.
What is he was assassinated by John Wilkes Booth?
The system of farming where black Americans were paid very little to work on farms where they had to pay their bosses for all of their needs.
What is "sharecropping?"
This compromise created the 36o30' line and said no slavery was allowed above that line of latitude.
What is the Missouri Compromise?
This name is the holiday celebrated on Galveston as the day all slaves were freed in the south.
What is Juneteenth?
This man was forced to resign from his position in the state government because he refused to swear loyalty to the Confederate States of America (the Confederacy).
Who is Sam Houston?
The political party that Abraham Lincoln was the first president from.
What is republican?
The name for black men who enlisted in the United States military after the Civil War.
Who are buffalo soldiers?