Quiz - Civil War & Poetry

How did slavery influence Texas to enter the Civil War?

• Most Texans believed slavery was wrong and wanted to end it. 
• Most Texans did not own slaves so it did not have an influence. 
•  Most Texans believed that slavery was vital to their economy. 
• Most Texans wanted to end the slave trade.

Which Governor was removed from office for refusing to take the Oath of Allegiance to the Confederacy?  

• Mirabeau Lamar
• Francis Lubbock
• Sam Houston
• John Bell Hood

Why were the delegates at the Secession Convention in FAVOR of having Texas secede from the Union? 

• They were tired of paying high federal income tax. 
• They wanted Abraham Lincoln to be president. 
• They felt the United States gave states too many rights. 
• They believed citizens should be allowed to own slaves.

In Texas history, what is the significance of the year 1861? 

• The legislature passed a law making fence-cutting a felony. 
• Hurricane winds destroyed the area surrounding Galveston. 
• Charles Goodnight created the first cattle ranch in the Texas Panhandle. 
• The Secession Convention decided that Texas should withdraw from the Union.

What cash crop accounted for the large increase in the slave population during the 1800's in Texas? 

• peanuts
• sugar cane
• potatoes
• Cotton

Why were so few Civil War battles fought in Texas?  

• Texas was geographically at the farthest end of the Confederacy 
• the Texas Navy kept the Union army out of Texas for the entire war
• the Confederate army was superior to the Union army and prevented blockades
• Texas were already involved in battles with Native Americans on the frontier

Why did the southern states threaten to secede?

• They thought that Lincoln would end slavery. 
• Lincoln would never end slavery 
• They thought Lincoln would be a bad president 
• Lincoln wanted war with Mexico

Texas was more economically successful than other states after the Civil War because— 

• Since few battles were fought on Texas soil most fields and farms were not destroyed. 
• Because of the tariff, Texans had a better plan to recover from the war. 
• Plantation owners and former slaves worked together to increase cotton production after the war. 
• During Reconstruction, the Union worked to rebuild Texas’ economy first.

A plantation is

• a really big plant

• a tax paid on goods

• a group of soldiers

• a large farm that produces crops to sell

What does secede mean?

• to officially leave or separate from a group

• a tax paid on goods

• a group of soldiers

• a large farm