Week 20 and 21

Texas was part of the _______________.

• Union

• Confederacy

What was the first state to secede from the United States?

• Georgia

• Texas

• Virginia

• South Carolina

What piece of legislation required all people escaping enslavement to be captured by law enforcement and returned to their legal owners?

• Fugitive Slave Act

• Underground Railroad Act
• Emancipation Proclamation
• The Missouri Compromise

The Civil War started when the Confederacy attacked Union soldiers at_______________.

• Fort McHenry
• Gettysburg
• Antietam
• Fort Sumter

Who was President of the United States when the Civil War began?

• Abraham Lincoln
• John F. Kennedy
• Thomas Jefferson
• George Washington

How many Texans fought for the Union Army?

• 1,000

• 2,000

• 10,000

• 20,000

Why did Sam Houston not support secession?

• He believed slavery was good.

• He did not believe that the South could beat the North.

Who wrote the Emancipation Proclamation?

• George Washington
• Abraham Lincoln
• Thomas Jefferson
• John F. Kennedy

The Emancipation Proclamation ended all slavery in the United States.

• False

• True

Where did the surrender of the Civil War happen?

• Gettysburg, Pennsylvania
• Vicksburg, Mississippi
• Antietam, Maryland
• Appomattox Court House in Virginia