TX Constitution & Mexican-American War
What are the three branches of government?
Legislative, Executive, Judicial
What was the largest immigrant group in Texas?
Germans
After the South seceded, what did they become?
The Confederate States of America
Where did Texas soldiers fight?
Texas, Louisiana, Virginia
What happened to the Texas State Constitution after the war?
They removed slavery from it
What is the job of the executive branch?
To carry out the laws
Where did most plantation owners/slave holders move to Texas from?
The Lower South (Louisiana, Arkansas, Mississippi, Alabama, Georgia, South Carolina
Who was the US President when the Civil War broke out?
Abraham Lincoln
Where/when was the last battle of the war fought?
In Texas, a month after the South surrendered
What were the Black Codes?
Laws that put restrictions on African American rights
What is the job of the judicial branch?
What was a Cotton Town?
Cotton Towns supported the Cotton Industry. They were the towns near ports where cotton was shipped out of. This is where the “average” people lived- the merchants, bankers, insurance agents, fishermen, etc.
What happened after the southern states seceded?
Both the Union and Confederacy raised armies
How did the Civil War end?
With the Confederacy surrendering to the Union
What did the United States do after they found themselves unhappy with Reconstruction in Texas?
They sent in the US government to the South to make sure reconstruction was being done
Who leads the legislative branch?
The Senate and the House of Representatives
By 1860, what was the slave population in Texas?
1 out of every 3 people, or 30% of the population was enslaved
What was the differences between the North and South in terms of population and economy?
North had larger population and an industrial economy, South had smaller population with an agricultural economy
What was the significance of the Texas Gulf Coast during the Civil War?
It was how goods got in and cotton got out of Texas; they needed to sell cotton for $, they needed goods for their soldiers and people.
The Union blockaded the gulf.
The Confederacy used blockade runners to get around the blockades.
What did President Johnson do to reconstruct the Union?
Carried out Lincoln’s plan for reconstruction; created the Freedmen's Bureau to help formerly enslaved people get medicine, food, schooling, housing, etc.
What did the US get as a result of the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo?
55% of Mexico's land
Explain how the growth of cotton in the south is tied to the growth of factories and industrialization in the north
Cotton was grown in the South, sent North on either steam trains or ships, and brought to factories in the North. Immigrants flooded into the North and worked at these factories. The demand for goods grew, which meant the demand for cotton grew, which caused more factories to pop up and more cotton to be produced.
What was the reason Texas seceded?
Majority of Texans wanted States Rights, Slavery, Nullification, and believed in Sectionalism
What gave the North the advantage in the war?
The North had more people and more factories, which meant they had more soldiers and supplies
What happened to the Texas economy during Reconstruction?
It grew!! The demand for cotton continued to grow, and sharecroppers continued to grow it.