TX24 - Reconstruction and CW Review 2

Governor Sam Houston and the Texan Secessionists agreed that slavery should be a part of the Texas economy. Explain TWO [2] things that they disagreed on.

What would be the BEST title for the images shown and described here?

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• * factories were built to create war supplies

• * farmers planted more corn and wheat

• * the war caused shortages of supplies

• * women took jobs when men were away

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How Texas Helped the Confederacy Win

Texas Life During the Age of Contact

Texas Economy during the Civil War

Texans Prepare for War with Mexico

Match the following government terms with the correct descriptions.

• Popular Sovereignty

• our state constitution separates the powers of government: Legislative, Executive, and Judicial

• Three Branches of Government

• political power used by "qualified" voters

• 13th Amendment

• gave suffrage [voting] rights to ALL male citizens

• 14th Amendment

• protects the "civil rights" of everyone born in the U.S. [including former slaves]

• 15th Amendment

• abolished slavery in the U.S.

Organize these options into the right Reconstruction categories. WHEN COMPLETED, THERE SHOULD BE THREE [3] ITEMS IN EACH CATEGORY.

Groups:

(a) Juneteenth

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(b) Freedmen's Bureau

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(c) Johnson impeachment

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(d) Amendments

• U.S. General Gordon Granger enforced the Emancipation Proclamation

• 14 - citizenship rights for former slaves

• struggle for control of Reconstruction

• provided food and clothing to former slaves

• provided an education to former slaves

• day of freedom for slaves in Texas

• 13 - slavery abolished

• happened 2 months AFTER the war ended [slow communication]

• Democrat President vs. Republican Congress

• protected the legal rights of former slaves

• 15 - suffrage [voting] rights for all MALE citizens

• Radical Republicans failed by ONE vote

Despite gaining their ​ (a)   [voting] rights in the ​ (b)   , many former slaves had difficulty voting due to economic barriers like the ​ (c)   - money collected from every voter before they are allowed to vote. Barriers like this were often used by ​ (d)   to deny the rights of former slaves.

• suffrage
• 15th Amendment
• poll tax
• Southern governments

Which of these Texas battles of the Civil War was fought near Brownsville [in far South Texas] more than a month AFTER the war ended? [hint: this happened due to slow communications - people that far south hadn't heard that the war was over]

• Battle of Galveston

• Battle of Sabine Pass

• Battle of Palmito Ranch

• Battle of San Antonio

The Texas Constituion [just like the U.S. Constitution] separates the powers of government into 3 branches. Which THREE [3] of these choices are the names of the 3 branches?

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• YOU MUST CHOOSE THREE [3] CORRECT ANSWERS

• Legislative

• Cultural

• Executive

• Administrative

• Judicial

Reorder the following events that happened near the end of the Civil War so that they are in the correct CHRONOLOGICAL order.

• Southern governments put an economic barrier [poll tax] in place to stop former slaves from voting

• President Abraham Lincoln is assassinated while watching a play in Washington D.C.

• the Battle of Palmito Ranch is fought a month AFTER the war is over due to slow communications

• Confederate General Robert E. Lee surrenders to Union General Ulysses S. Grant, officially ending the war

• the Emancipation Proclamation is finally enforced in Texas [it is now known as "Juneteenth"]

The ​ (a)   changed the shape of Texas [when our state gave up land to the U.S. that eventually became New Mexico] and the agreement also ​allowed citizens in the new territories the chance to vote FOR or AGAINST slavery [which is a political power known as "popular sovereignty"].

• Compromise of 1850
• Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo
• Agreement at Appomattox
• Texas Constitution of 1876

Where in Texas did the LAST battle of the Civil War take place?

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• * it was the Battle of Palmito Ranch

• * it happened a month AFTER the war was over due to slow communications