Key Vocabulary
This term refers to concern for regional needs and interests.
What is sectionalism?
This new political party in the 1850s was anti-slavery.
What is the Republican Party?
The Texas governor who opposed secession and was removed from office.
Who is Sam Houston?
The first shots of the Civil War were fired here.
Fort Sumter (South Carolina).
This Union general arrived in Texas to announce that all enslaved Texans were free.
Who is General Gordon Granger?
The belief that states have the right to govern themselves without interference from the federal government.
What are states' rights?
This compromise allowed California to enter as a free state and strengthened the Fugitive Slave Law.
What is the Compromise of 1850?
This law required all men between 18-35 to serve in the Confederate army.
What is the Conscription Act?
The battle where Texas troops recaptured a key port city from the Union in 1863.
What is the Battle of Galveston?
The organization that provided food, education, and medical aid to freed slaves.
What is the Freedmen’s Bureau?
A period of rebuilding and reintegration of Southern states after the Civil War.
What is Reconstruction?
The violent conflict in Kansas over slavery that resulted from popular sovereignty.
What is Bleeding Kansas?
The date when Texas officially seceded from the Union.
What is February 23, 1861?
The Union's failed attempt to invade Texas by attacking Fort Griffin.
What is the Battle of Sabine Pass?
The amendment that abolished slavery. This other amendment gave African Americans citizenship. The other amendment gave African Americans the right to vote.
What is the 13th , 14th, AND 15th Amendment?
This term refers to independent power given to the people.
What is popular sovereignty?
The Supreme Court case that ruled enslaved individuals were property and could not sue for freedom.
What is Dred Scott v. Sandford?
The military strategy used by the Union to block Texas ports and cut off supplies.
What is the Anaconda Plan?
This battle, fought over a month after the Confederacy surrendered, was the last battle of the Civil War.
What is the Battle of Palmito Ranch?
The governor of Texas who led during Radical Reconstruction.
Who is Edmund J. Davis?
A person who favors the abolition of a practice or institution, especially capital punishment or (formerly) slavery.
What is an abolitionist?
The radical abolitionist who led a raid at Harpers Ferry.
Who is John Brown?
This Texas cavalry unit was known for its fierce fighting and skill on horseback.
What is Terry’s Texas Rangers?
This fort was along the side of two merging rivers and impacted the battle of Sabine Pass.
What is Fort Griffin?
The white supremacist group that used violence to suppress African Americans during Reconstruction.
What is the Ku Klux Klan?