The Civil War and Reconstruction in Texas

What effect did the invention of the cotton gin have on cotton production?

• Cotton profits dropped significantly

• it decreased global demand for cotton

• fewer workers were needed to produce cotton

• it slowed the cotton production process

was elected to the U.S. Congress as the representative from east Texas

• John Reagan

• Francis Lubbock

• Thomas Green

• John Bankhead Magruder

a tax on imported goods

• tariff

• nullification

• blockade

• regiment

when someone leaves a military post with permission and with no intention of returning

• desertion

• regiment

• secede

• resistance

to withdraw from something, such as a nation

• secede

• states' rights

• nullification

• desertion

ships that slip past a blockade to deliver goods

• blockade runner

• blockade

• resistance

• abolitionist

storehouses for weapons

• arsenal

• resistance

• blockade runner

• secede

loyalty to one's own region of the country, rather than to the nation as a whole

• sectionalism

• vigilante

• Unionist

• regiment

having supreme authority and power

• arsenal

• supremacy

• tariff

• secede

idea that states have the right to limit the power of the federal government

• states' rights

• sectionalism

• nullification

• amendment