A New Era in Texas

1. Who was Matthew Gaines?

• A farmer

• A slave

• A Senator from Texas

• A senator from New York

What is the meaning of the word reconstruction?

• To build something again

• To put pieces together

• To join people at the hip

• To build new things

Who was General Gordon?

• An army officer from the Union that became distinguished at the Battle of York Town.

• An army officer from the Confederacy that became distinguished at the Battle of The Alamo.

• An army officer from the Union that became distinguished at the Battle of Chickamauga.

• An army officer that later on became the 20th President of the United States of America.

What is a sharecropper?

• A person that gives all of his money to a landowner

• A person that leases a land and pays the owner with crops.

• A person that sells crops at a farm every day and then goes back home.

• A person that owns land and leases it out to others.

What is Juneteenth?

• It's like a Christmas celebration when people gather together and eat.

• It's a celebration of the end of the Civil War.

• It's a celebration commemorating American Independence.

• It's a celebration commemorating the end of slavery.

What did the Emancipation Proclamation do?

• It freed the slaves that were in the Confederacy.

• It freed the slaves that were all over the United States.

• It freed the slaves in Texas

• It freed the states in the Union

What was the Freedmen Bureau?

• It was an organization that freed the slaves.

• It was a group of men that fought in the Civil War.

• It was an organization created by Congress to help former slaves and poor whites after the Civil War.

• It was a group of people that worked together to establish a new economical system after the war.

This is the flag of...

• The Union

• The Confederacy

• The United States

This is flag of...

• The Confederacy

• The Union

• The United States

How many states conformed the Union?

• 15 free states and 5 extra

• 20 free states and 5 extra

• 15 slave states and 3 extra

• 10 slave states and 2 extra