WorksheetsCivil War
Total questions: 15
Worksheet time: 9mins
Galveston, Sabine Pass, Brownsville.
Confederate forces defended these Texas locations from the Union in order to...
control the ranching industry to stop the supply of beef to the North.
prevent shipping lanes of cotton to Europe from being blocked by the North.
gather more soldiers to fill the ranks with soldiers in the Union Army.
prevent the North from importing cotton and sending it to Northern factories.
Which event occurred in Texas after the surrender of the South at Appomattox?
The Battle of Austin
The Battle of Val Verde
The Battle of Palmito Ranch
The Battle of Glorieta Pass
Which answer choice explains the importance of the year 1861 in Texas History?
Texas won its independence from the country of Mexico.
Texas was able to become it own Republic in the United States.
Texas became an independent nation from the United States.
Texas seceded from the United States and joined the Confederate States.
Which Texas holiday was created when General Granger delivered the news in Galveston?
Cinco de Mayo
Juneteenth
San Jacinto Day
Veterans’ Day
Which phrase makes the best title for the diagram above?
The role of slavery in the Civil War
The role of Southerners in the Civil War
The role of states’ rights in the Civil War
The role of tariffs in the Civil War
Which of the following laws impacted African-American life after the Civil War?
Black Codes
Civil Rights
Public Laws
African Ban
Which answer identifies the purpose of the forts in Texas prior to and after the Civil War?
Barriers between Texas settlements in the East and Indians in the West.
Protection against Mexican raids across the Rio grande River into Texas.
Watching the coast to protect against raids from Mexican pirates in the Gulf of Mexico.
Keeping East Texas settlements safe from French attacks from Louisiana.
“[We] are citizens of Fayette County and all, or nearly so, of one neighborhood, … [we] represent that [we] have but one Grist Mill convenient to [our] said neighborhood and that is kept and owned by one Alexander Schecke who is subject to be drafted and if he should be drafted said Mill would be… closed up and thereby put your petitioners to great inconveniences to get bread for their families. We, … therefore pray Your Excellency to relieve said Alex Schecke from said duty of being drafted [for war]…”
-- Petition from citizens of Fayette County to Governor Francis Lubbock, April 2, 1862
What does the petition suggest about life in Fayette County, Texas during the American Civil War?
Life in Fayette County was difficult and losing a gristmill would make conditions even worse.
People in Fayette County were more concerned about their own interests than the war.
The people of Fayette County were Unionists and hoped to stop the Confederate cause.
Most people in Fayette County supported the Act of Conscription at the beginning of the war.
Which significant individual of Texas history is being identified by the diagram above?
Sitting Bull
Quanah Parker
Geronimo
Red Cloud
Based on the map, which region of Texas was the battleground between the U.S. Army and Native Americans?
Coastal Plains of Texas
Along the Rio Grande
Great Plains of the Panhandle
Mountains of West Texas
Which group helped remove Native Americans from the Texas frontier after the Civil War?
Texas Navy
National Guard
Horse Warriors
Buffalo Soldiers
Which set of amendments were passed during Reconstruction that impacted African-American life in the United States?
12th, 13th, and 14th Amendments
13th, 14th, and 15th Amendments
14th, 15th, and 16th Amendments
15th, 17th, and 19th Amendments
“These men have done in the last two years and will do more in the next year to settle the [troublesome] Indian question, than the entire regular army has done in the last thirty years. They are destroying the Indians’ buffalo, and it is a well-known fact that an army losing its base of supplies is placed at a great disadvantage. Send them powder and lead, if you will; but, for the sake of a lasting peace, let them kill, skin, and sell until the buffaloes are exterminated. Then your prairies can be covered with speckled cattle.”
—General Philip Sheridan, quoted in The Border and the Buffalo
According to the excerpt, which choice explains why the U.S. government supported the slaughter of buffalo on the Great Plains in the late 1800s?
The slaughter of the buffalo was seen as a convenient way to supply western settlers with food and shelter in the harsh environment.
The slaughter of the buffalo was seen as a way to bring the Native Americans of the Great Plains under the control of the U.S. Government.
The slaughter of the buffalo provided supplies to states in the East that began to make luxury items such as wallets and purses.
The slaughter of the buffalo was seen as necessary to making land available for settlement because the buffalo attacked the cattle.
Which answer identifies the impact of sharecropping on poor white and African American farmers?
Farmers found it difficult to overcome their debt to landowners.
Farmers became successful in building their own plantations.
Farmers struggled to produce enough cotton to supply the U.S.
Farmers gained assistance from landowners to become successful.
Which answer identifies the territories created for Native Americans by the U.S. after the Civil War?
Plantations
Reservations
Apartments
Factories
