Civil War and Reconstruction (2019-2020)

When it came to the congressional balance between slave states and Free states, what was the issue?

• There was no issue, The south agreed on the balance

• Northern states encouraged the spread of slavery into western territories

• Southern states were worried that they would be outnumbered in Congress.

• The south agreed on more free states, less southern states.

Which outcomes represents Civil War the most?

• Sectionalism, states' rights and slavery

• Expanding America from East to West

• Black codes, Ku Klux Klan and Freedman's Bureu

• North Vs. South

True or False: Slavery in the South was influenced by the geographic factor of good soil and long growing season for Plantations before the Civil War?

• True

• False

How did the Civil War begin?

• The signing of the Emancipation Proclamation issued by Lincoln, freeing all slaves.

• Confederate troops firing on fort Sumter in 1861

• Compromise of 1850

• Texas is annexed as a slave state in 1845

Taking back Galveston was an important Victory for the Confederacy because?

• It let confederate ships attach the Union from the North because it opened the Mississippi River

• It forced the union to give up and end the Civil War

• It was the only confederate port still open allowing much needed supplies to be brought in

• it forced the south to give up

What ended Union attempts to enter Texas from the East?

• Winning the battle of Sabine Pass for the Confederacy

• battle of saratoga

• Winning the battle of Fort sumter

• hundreds of Union troops were killed or wounded.

Which of these explains this statement: " Our country will extend from sea to sea to make us a world power"

• Texas was a powerful country and Americans new that

• American belief in Manifest Destiny

• congress had to balance the power between slave state and free states

Why were black Codes passed ?

• increase labor supply for factory jobs

• decrease the number of northern representatives in congress

• improve relations with Freedmen

• Limit the effects of the Reconstruction Amendments

True or false: The Confederacy had knowledge of the Terrain where most battles were fought giving them an advantage over the Union troops during the Civil War

• True

• False

Based on this excerpt, why did Texas seceded from the United States

• Slave-holding states had a less representation in Congress.

• Texas had to pay high Taxes

• Slavery was illegal

• Texas raids were getting worse and U.S troops weren't protecting them