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A New Era in Texas

Total questions: 10

Worksheet time: 5mins

Name
Class
Date
1.
  1. Who was Matthew Gaines?
a)

A farmer

b)

A slave

c)

A Senator from Texas

d)

A senator from New York

2.

What is the meaning of the word reconstruction?

a)

To build something again

b)

To put pieces together

c)

To join people at the hip

d)

To build new things

3.

Who was General Gordon?

a)

An army officer from the Union that became distinguished at the Battle of York Town.

b)

An army officer from the Confederacy that became distinguished at the Battle of The Alamo.

c)

An army officer from the Union that became distinguished at the Battle of Chickamauga.

d)

An army officer that later on became the 20th President of the United States of America.

4.

What is a sharecropper?

a)

A person that gives all of his money to a landowner

b)

A person that leases a land and pays the owner with crops.

c)

A person that sells crops at a farm every day and then goes back home.

d)

A person that owns land and leases it out to others.

5.

What is Juneteenth?

a)

It's like a Christmas celebration when people gather together and eat.

b)

It's a celebration of the end of the Civil War.

c)

It's a celebration commemorating American Independence.

d)

It's a celebration commemorating the end of slavery.

6.

What did the Emancipation Proclamation do?

a)

It freed the slaves that were in the Confederacy.

b)

It freed the slaves that were all over the United States.

c)

It freed the slaves in Texas

d)

It freed the states in the Union

7.

What was the Freedmen Bureau?

a)

It was an organization that freed the slaves.

b)

It was a group of men that fought in the Civil War.

c)

It was an organization created by Congress to help former slaves and poor whites after the Civil War.

d)

It was a group of people that worked together to establish a new economical system after the war.

8.

This is the flag of...

a)

The Union

b)

The Confederacy

c)

The United States

9.

This is flag of...

a)

The Confederacy

b)

The Union

c)

The United States

10.

How many states conformed the Union?

a)

15 free states and 5 extra

b)

20 free states and 5 extra

c)

15 slave states and 3 extra

d)

10 slave states and 2 extra