Unit 8 CBA Review

Why wasn’t the Union blockade along the Texas coast during the Civil War completely successful?

• The Union ships were far from the coast.

• Texas farmers shipped cotton out through Mexico.

• Texans used overland routes until they reached the Mississippi River.

• Texas received supplies and shipped cotton out of ports on the Pacific.

What did many people in Texas, and in the South, believe about state’s rights?

• They believed that national laws didn’t apply to states.

• They believed that national laws should apply to everyone.

• They believed states could choose which national laws to follow.

• They believed national laws and state laws should be the same.

During the Civil War, people at home faced —

• the challenges of living near most of the fighting

• difficulties defending the borders of Texas

• shortages of food and supplies

• few hardships

Why did Texas need help during Reconstruction?

• Ending slavery had many far-reaching effects.

• Most of the state was destroyed during the fighting.

• Cotton was no longer a major crop and a new cash crop was needed.

• Texas had to pay heavy fines for breaking away from the United States.

Read the excerpt. Then answer the question.

“The people of Texas are informed that, in accordance with a proclamation from the Executive of the United States, all slaves are free. This involves an absolute equality of personal rights and rights of property between former masters and slaves, and the connection heretofore existing between them becomes that between employers and hired labor. . . . ”

—General Orders, Number 3; Headquarters District of Texas, Galveston, June 19, 1865. Issued by General Gordon Granger.

What was an effect of this order issued by Granger?

• The siege of Texas

• The Freedmen’s Bureau

• The origin of Juneteenth

• The Emancipation Proclamation

Read the excerpt. Then answer the question.

“The people of Texas are informed that, in accordance with a proclamation from the Executive of the United States, all slaves are free. This involves an absolute equality of personal rights and rights of property between former masters and slaves, and the connection heretofore existing between them becomes that between employers and hired labor. . . . ”

—General Orders, Number 3; Headquarters District of Texas, Galveston, June 19, 1865. Issued by General Gordon Granger.

What does the order say should happen to former slaves?

• They should leave the farms.

• They should receive property.

• They should be paid for their work.

• They should break ties with former masters.

When the attempts to move all of the Plains Indians in Texas to the Indian Territory failed, the United States Army __________ as a way to defeat the Plains Indians.

• built forts

• killed buffalo

• closed off their land

• ran rail lines through their land

Which of these describes a result of the Red River War?

• Plains Indians returned to hunting buffalo.

• Plains Indians moved to the Indian Territory.

• Plains Indians closed off the plains to settlement.

• Plains Indians signed the Treaty of Moultrie Creek.

Which problem did Plains Indians face after the Civil War?

• Loss of farm land

• Little pay for land in Texas

• Migration of settlers to Texas

• Conflicts with other American Indians