Texas Civil War and Reconstruction

After the Civil War, where did most freed people live?​

• Ranches
• Cities/Urban areas
• Rural areas
• Medium-sized towns

What did the 15th Amendment guarantee?

• Slavery is abolished
• Freed African Americans' rights are protected
• African American men can vote
• Women can vote

How did the Texas economy change just AFTER the Civil War? 

• It became a petroleum-based economy. 
• It became a sharecropping based economy.
•  It was destroyed because it depended on slavery.
• It was improved because it increased cotton production.

What college provided students who made up most of Terry's Texas Rangers?

• Baylor University
• Texas A&M
• Southern Methodist University
• University of Texas at Austin

Why did African Americans in Texas choose to fight for the Union Army?

• They had achieved freedom and could do so
• They did not want to fight alongside their former owners
• A Union victory would result in a quicker end to slavery
• The Union Army paid them

________ were those who believed that Congress should direct Reconstruction

• Radical Republicans
• Scalawags
• Carpetbaggers
• Unionists

What does Juneteenth commemorate?

• The end of slavery in Texas
• The beginning of summer in Texas
• The beginning of Reconstruction in Texas
• The end of the Civil War in Texas

Which of the following is an example of a black code?

• A secret symbol used to signify stops on the Underground Railroad
• The 15th Amendment to the US Constitution
• A law prohibiting African Americans from serving on juries
• A law granting African Americans the right to hold public office

What did the 13th Amendment do?

• Abolished slavery
• Gave African American men the right to vote
• defined national citizenship and forbade the states to restrict the basic rights of citizens or other persons.
• made it illegal for any state to secede

What was the main goal of Reconstruction?

• To integrate African Americans fully into Southern society
• To ensure the South paid off all its war debts
• To restore the South to the Union as quickly as possible
• To establish Northern control over the South