Texas and the Civil War

Match the following

• kind of rule sometimes established in areas of TX that were Unionist

• Emancipation Proclamation

• to formally withdraw

• Albert Sidney Johnston

• decreed that slaves were free in areas rebelling against the U.S.

• martial law

• the belief that state power is greater than federal power

• state's rights

• Texan who was the second highest ranking officer in the Confederate Army until he was killed

• secede

Match the following

• commander who successfully defended Laredo from Union forces

• Santos Benavides

• commander of the Confederate artillery at the Battle of Sabine Pass

• Henry H. Sibley

• Confederate general who attempted to seize control of the SW in 1861

• regiments

• units of about 1,000 soldiers

• draft

• law that was unpopular because some people received exemptions

• Richard Dowling

Both social and economic differences began to divide the North from the South.

• true

• false

Southerners generally favored higher tariffs on manufactured goods.

• true

• false

Sam Houston's opposition to the Kansas-Nebraska Act cost him friends in Texas.

• true

• false

Texans strongly supported secession.

• true

• false

Governor Sam Houston was removed from office when he refused to take an oath of allegiance to the Confederacy.

• true

• false

After Lincoln's election, South Carolina seceded from the Union.

• true

• false

Thousands of Texans rushed to join the Confederate forces.

• true

• false

The struggle to control the Mississippi River valley was costly and of major significance to the outcome of the war.

• true

• false