Reconstruction, 1865-1876

Slavery ended in Texas on Juneteenth when ____________ proclaimed the Emancipation Proclamation following the Union occupation of Galveston.

• General Gordon Granter

• Abraham Lincoln

• General Sam Houston

• Mifflin Kennedy

The Texas legislature passed _____________, a series of restrictions that denied equality to African Americans.

• Civil Rights laws

• Jim Crow Laws

• Black Codes

• Race Codes

Texas and Louisiana were reorganized by the Reconstruction Act of 1867 into ____________.

• the First Military District

• the Third Military District

• the Twelfth Military District

• the Fifth Military District

The restoration of white supremacy and end of federal, military control in Texas is known as ____________.

• Gods Will

• Redemption

• Salvation

• Reclamation

Most freedmen and women left slavery and entered the landless class of agricultural workers who exchange their labor for residency on farms owned by whites as ___________.

• sharecroppers

• carpet baggers

• Free booters

• Rapscallion

Slavery officially ended in Texas on ___________________.

• January 1, 1863

• June 19, 1865

• July 4, 1876

• May 4, 1862

Texas rejoined the Union in__________________.

• 1876

• 1865

• 1870

• 1845

Appointed by President Anderw Johnson, ______________________ served as the head of Texas Government from 1865-1866.

• James Joyce Johnson

• Adam Jefferson Franklin

• Alexander Jackson Hamilton

• Madison, Monroe, Adams

Congressional reconstruction lasts from ____________.

• 1865-66

• 1867-70

• 1866-72

• 1865-69

_______________ was Elected sheriff, Republican party convention delegate, and state legislator from Fort Bend County. Senator Burton served on the legislative committee which established the University of Texas in 1881.

• James W Throckmorton

• Richard Coke

• Bass Reeves

• Walter Moses Burton