Texas Civil War and Reconstruction

Are Carpetbaggers from the North or the South?

• North
• South

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

What cash crop accounted for the large increase in the slave population during the 1800's in Texas? 

• peanuts
• sugar cane
• potatoes
• Cotton

Texas was more economically successful than other states after the Civil War because— 

• Since few battles were fought on Texas soil most fields and farms were not destroyed. 
• Because of the tariff, Texans had a better plan to recover from the war. 
• Plantation owners and former slaves worked together to increase cotton production after the war. 
• During Reconstruction, the Union worked to rebuild Texas’ economy first.

Why were so few Civil War battles fought in Texas?  

• Texas was geographically at the farthest end of the Confederacy 
• the Texas Navy kept the Union army out of Texas for the entire war
• the Confederate army was superior to the Union army and prevented blockades
• Texas were already involved in battles with Native Americans on the frontier

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 did the 15th Amendment guarantee?

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

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

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

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

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