Unit 8 Texas: Civil War and Reconstruction

What is a plantation?

• A large settlement that produces crops to sell

• An army base used to store ammunition

• A legislative body that makes laws

• A ranch where pigs, chickens, and cows are raised

One out of four families in Texas "owned" slaves

• True

• False

People who wanted to end slavery were known as...

• Free men

• abolitionists

• anti-slavers

• The Confederacy

Which of the following states did NOT secede?

• Texas

• Florida

• South Carolina

• California

Who was the President of the states that seceded and named themselves the Confederate States of America?

• Abraham Lincoln

• Sam Houston

• Jefferson Davis

• Robert E. Lee

A blockade is...

• A military strategy used to confuse enemy troops

• an effort to stop ships from going in or coming out of a port

• a barrier the U.S. army used to block confederate soldiers from entering the United States

• a group of soldiers riding on horseback

Which of the following was the last battle of the Civil War?

• The battle of Palmito Ranch

• The surrender at the Appomattox Court House

• The battle of the bulge

• The battle of Laredo

In Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation, he ordered...

• "that all persons held as slaves" in the confederacy were free

• that the United States would never give up

• that the war was over

• that slavery was only allowed in the south

The 13th Amendment to the U.S. constitution outlawed slavery throughout the United States

• True

• False

During the reconstruction, the Freedmen's Bureau helped African Americans in the following ways EXCEPT...

• by giving them food and clothes

• by helping them find work and places to live

• by helping them adjust to a new economy

• by helping stop the Ku Klux Klan