Texas/Civil War & Reconstruction

What landform was key to the Union to divide and weaken the Confederacy?

• Mississippi River
• Port of Galveston
• Port of New Orleans
• Sabine River

Why did African Americans in Texas choose to fight for the Union Army?

• They had achieved freedom and could do so
• They did not want to fight alongside their former owners
• A Union victory would result in a quicker end to slavery
• The Union Army paid them

Northerners wanted to abolish slavery and Southerners wanted to keep slavery.  These two divided sections of the US selfishly focused on their own needs.  This is called....

• sectionalism
• nationalism
• patriotism
• sectarianism

After the Civil War, many freed people set out to own their own land, but ended up living in small communities on what?

• unused land
• former plantation land
• on land granted to them by US government

What were the 'black codes'?

• laws limiting the rights of African Americans passed by Southern governments after the Civil War
• laws protecting the newly found rights of freed African Americans
• another term for the 13th, 14th and 15th amendments
• secret laws instituted by the Ku Klux Klan

Prohibiting African Americans from serving on juries, testifying against whites in courts, or voting were all ______?

• black codes
• basis for the 13, 14 and 15th amendments
• inclusions to the new Texas Constitution of 1866
• laws that the Freedman's Bureau tried to abolish

What did the 13th Amendment do?

• Abolished slavery
• Gave African American men the right to vote
• defined national citizenship and forbade the states to restrict the basic rights of citizens or other persons.
• made it illegal for any state to secede

What did the 14th Amendment guarantee?

• Slavery would be abolished
• The rights of the freed people would be protected
• African American could vote
• Women could vote

What did the 15th Amendment guarantee?

• Slavery is abolished
• Freed African Americans' rights are protected
• African American men can vote
• Women can vote

Which Confederate general officially surrendered all Confederate forces in Texas at the end of the Civil War?

• Edmund Kirby Smith
• John Bell Hood
• Thomas Green
• John Magruder