TX25 - Reconstruction Ends

Organize these options into the right categories.

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• WHEN COMPLETED, THERE SHOULD BE TWO [2] ITEMS IN EACH CATEGORY

Groups:

(a) SOUTHERN FARMER

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(b) SLAVE

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(c) NORTHERN BUSINESSMAN

• believed that federal laws should be obeyed

• wanted slavery to continue

• tearing the nation apart

• wanted to abolish slavery

• believe in "states' rights" and "nullification"

• labored every day for years with no control over their own lives

Match the following CAUSES of the Civil War to the correct descriptions.

• FUGITIVE SLAVE LAW

• recapturing escaped slaves and returning them to the South, even if they're found in "free" states

• POPULAR SOVEREIGNTY

• a state that ignores or rejects a federal law that the state disagrees with

• COMPROMISE OF 1850

• loyalty to one area of the country instead of the entire country

• NULLIFICATION

• political power that belongs to the people [used to vote for or against slavery]

• SECTIONALISM

• agreements centered on expanding slavery to new U.S. territories

Write about each of these political parties [where they were mostly located, what they believed, who were some important members]:

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1 - Democratic Party -

and

2 - Republican Party -

Label this image with the name of the man shown [and described below].

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• * GENERAL in command of the Texans at San Jacinto

• * PRESIDENT of the Republic of Texas [twice]

• * SENATOR from Texas, making laws for the U.S.

• * GOVERNOR who refused the Confederacy and got removed from office

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Abraham Lincoln

Jefferson Davis

Sam Houston

Stephen F. Austin

During the Civil War, the ​ (a)   [northern states] had a resource advantage over the ​ (b)   [southern states]. The three biggest advantages were in the categories of ​ (c)   production, manufactured ​ (d)   , and merchant ​ (e)   .

• Union
• Confederacy
• iron
• goods
• ships

"CIVIL WAR AND RECONSTRUCTION" EVENTS

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• ​ (a)   - Fort Sumter, Galveston, Sabine Pass, Palmito Ranch

• ​ (b)   - Lincoln's message of freedom for slaves in the south

• ​ (c)   - Lee surrendered to Grant, ending the Civil War

• ​ (d)   - a day of freedom for slaves in Texas

• ​ (e)   - government agency that provided food, clothes, jobs, etc. to former slaves

• BATTLES
• EMANCIPATION PROCLAMATION
• APPOMATTOX COURT HOUSE
• JUNETEENTH
• FREEDMEN'S BUREAU

CIVIL WAR: CHANGES IN TEXAS

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• * farmers plant less cotton, more corn and wheat

• * Union blockades cause shortages of supplies

• * women take jobs normally done by men

• * factories are built to manufacture war items

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• ALL of these items would fit in the ____ category of a PEGS chart.

• P - POLITICAL

• E - ECONOMIC

• G - GEOGRAPHIC

• S - SOCIAL

All of these items belong in the P - POLITICAL category of a PEGS chart EXCEPT for which one?

• Leaders:

  Abraham Lincoln [Union] and Jefferson Davis [Confederacy]

• Home Front:

  farming less cotton,

  building factories,

  women in the work force

• Generals:

  Ulysses S. Grant [Union] and

  Robert E. Lee [Confederacy]

• Amendments:

  13th [abolish slavery]

  14th [citizenship]

  15th [voting rights]

Match the following people to the correct descriptions below.

• fired when he wouldn't join Confederacy

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• accepted Lee's surrender at Appomattox

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• impeached by Radical Republicans

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• brought the "Juneteenth" message to TX

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• issued the Emancipation Proclamation

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The Freedmen's Bureau was a government agency that helped former slaves in the years after the Civil War.

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• Which THREE [3] of these items were all provided by the Freedmen's Bureau?

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• YOU MUST CHOOSE THREE [3] CORRECT ANSWERS

• jobs for former slaves

• recreational activities for former slaves

• education for former slaves

• land for former slaves

• legal rights for former slaves