Chapter 7: New Challenges for Texas

Plantation is a...

• large farm that produces crops to sell

• barn that has animals

• house with children

• the 28th state of the United States

What event started the Civil War?

• the Confederate Army was formed

• the attack of Gettysburg

• the attack on Fort Sumter

• John Brown's raid at Harper's Ferry

Match the following vocabulary words to the correct definition

• a tax paid on goods that come from another country

• segregation

• people who wanted to end slavery

• tariff

• separate from a group

• sharecropper

• racial separation

• abolitionist

• a farmer who pays part of what they grow to a landowner

• secede

The Civil War was from ​ (a)   to ​ (b)   .​ ​

• 1861
• 1865
• 1871
• 1875
• 1864

The ​ (a)   was issued in 1863.

• Emancipation Proclamation
• Declaration of Independence
• Common Sense
• Treaty of Guadalupe-Hidalgo

What was the purpose of the Emancipation Proclamation?

• to free slaves

• to legalize slavery

• to purchase more slaves

• to pay slaves for their labor

There were ​ (a)   Confederate states.

• 11
• 21
• 10
• 12

Why is Juneteenth an important celebration?

Match the following descriptions to the correct amendment

• African Americans the right to vote

• 15th amendment

• abolish slavery

• 14th amendment

• equal rights protection

• 13th amendment

Why was the Ku Klux Klan formed?

• to frighten Americans

• to frighten African Americans

• to frighten women

• to frighten presidents