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WorksheetsA New Era in Texas
Total questions: 10
Worksheet time: 5mins
- Who was Matthew Gaines?
A farmer
A slave
A Senator from Texas
A senator from New York
What is the meaning of the word reconstruction?
To build something again
To put pieces together
To join people at the hip
To build new things
Who was General Gordon?
An army officer from the Union that became distinguished at the Battle of York Town.
An army officer from the Confederacy that became distinguished at the Battle of The Alamo.
An army officer from the Union that became distinguished at the Battle of Chickamauga.
An army officer that later on became the 20th President of the United States of America.
What is a sharecropper?
A person that gives all of his money to a landowner
A person that leases a land and pays the owner with crops.
A person that sells crops at a farm every day and then goes back home.
A person that owns land and leases it out to others.
What is Juneteenth?
It's like a Christmas celebration when people gather together and eat.
It's a celebration of the end of the Civil War.
It's a celebration commemorating American Independence.
It's a celebration commemorating the end of slavery.
What did the Emancipation Proclamation do?
It freed the slaves that were in the Confederacy.
It freed the slaves that were all over the United States.
It freed the slaves in Texas
It freed the states in the Union
What was the Freedmen Bureau?
It was an organization that freed the slaves.
It was a group of men that fought in the Civil War.
It was an organization created by Congress to help former slaves and poor whites after the Civil War.
It was a group of people that worked together to establish a new economical system after the war.
This is the flag of...
The Union
The Confederacy
The United States
This is flag of...
The Confederacy
The Union
The United States
How many states conformed the Union?
15 free states and 5 extra
20 free states and 5 extra
15 slave states and 3 extra
10 slave states and 2 extra
