Chapter 16 The Civil War 7th Grade Texas History

The Civil War began when _________ soldiers attacked Fort Sumter in South Carolina in 1861.

• Union

• Confederate

• British

• African

People who lived in the western and northern parts of Texas did not depend on enslaved labor, so they _________ leaving the United States.

• opposed

• supported

• voted

• rioted

Because the Confederate states were unprepared to manufacture their own

cloth, women wove a coarse, loose-fitting fabric called __________ in their homes.

• quinine

• homespun

• wool

• cotton

In 1861 delegates from seceded states met at the ____________ in Alabama to form the Confederate States of America.

• Montgomery Convention

• Texas Convention

• Mexican Convention

• Gun Buyers Convention

President Andrew Johnson appointed ___________________ provisional governor of Texas at the end of the Civil War.

• Andrew Jackson Hamilton

• Sam Houston

• Travis Austin

• Santa Anna

________ - second capital of the Confederacy and chief objective of Union armies.

• Montgomery, Alabama

• Matamoros, Mexico

• Richmond, Virginia

• Fort Sumter, South Carolina

_______ : site of the first Civil War military action.

• Appomattox Court House, Virginia

• Matamoros, Mexico

• Montgomery, Alabama

• Fort Sumter, South Carolina

_______ : foreign ships used this port to avoid the Union blockade.

• Appomattox Court House, Virginia

• Montgomery, Alabama

• Matamoros, Mexico

• Richmond, Virginia

________ : site of Robert E. Lee’s surrender.

• Appomattox Court House, Virginia

• Matamoros, Mexico

• Richmond, Virginia

• Fort Sumter, South Carolina

__________ : convention in this city formed the Confederate States of America.

• Matamoros, Mexico

• Richmond, Virginia

• Fort Sumter, South Carolina

• Montgomery, Alabama