Chapter 7 Lesson 1: Texas and the Civil War

An effort to stop ships form going in or out of a port

• cavalry

• abolitionists

• secede

• blockade

A group of soldiers who fight battles on horseback

• cavalry

• abolitionists

• secede

• blockade

To officially leave or separate from a group

• cavalry

• abolitionists

• secede

• blockade

To cancel

• tariff

• nullify

• blockade

• plantation

A tax paid on goods that come from another country

• tariff

• plantation

• nullify

• cavalry

People who wanted to end slavery

• tariff

• abolitionists

• cavalry

• secede

A large farm that produces crops to sell

• tariff

• plantation

• nullify

• secede

In ________, President Abraham Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation.

• 1845

• 1860

• 1861

• 1863

On _________________, Texas troops defeated Union soldiers at the Battle of Palmito Ranch, near Brownsville. It was the very last battle of the Civil War.

• March 5, 1861

• May 13, 1863

• April 12, 1861

• May 13, 1865

On April 12, 1861, the first two shots of war were fired at Fort __________, a Union fort in South Carolina.

• Sumter

• Texas

• Sabine

• Jefferson