People who lived in the western and northern parts of Texas did not depend on enslaved labor, so they opposed leaving the United States.

Which of the following was true of Galveston in the Civil War?

Why did two-thirds of Civil War soldiers die from disease or infection?

Which Confederate general officially surrendered all Confederate forces in Texas at the end of the Civil War?

Why did the Union want to capture Brownsville?

Unionists faced danger, especially if they tried to avoid being forced into service by the Conscription Act. In August 1862, a large group of German settlers was caught as it attempted to flee to Mexico. Confederate cavalry caught up with the settlers and killed many in a fight near the Nueces River.  Other Unionists tried to escape conscription by hiding. Some were arrested. Others were forced to join the Confederate Army, and still others were killed by vigilante groups. These groups were citizens who took the law into their own hands. Some vigilante groups had the approval of local authorities. Vigilantes often hanged Unionists without a trial. For example, in 1862 about 40 .suspected Unionists were hanged in Gainesville. —Texas History

According to the excerpt, which of the following statements about Southern vigilante groups is accurate?

Juneteenth is a legal state holiday in Texas and the oldest-known observance commemorating the end of the Civil War.

What is the era from 1861 to 1874 in Texas known as?  

“The freedmen here have been kept in perfect terror of their lives by the desperate men of the County who are hostile and active in abusive assailing [attacking angrily] and murdering this inoffensive [not likely to offend] people all over the County for any and every pretext [excuse] that human ingenuity [cleverness] can devise and often without any plea whatever. Consequently the freedmen are restricted so much that they are afraid to report the murder of a black man until their confidence is obtained. These malcontents [unhappy people], villains and murderers are numerous and vicious and smarting under a sense of lost mastery over their former slaves and determined they shall not enjoy their freedom. Many of the freedmen express themselves dissatisfied with their freedom, preferring to be slaves as they once were having some protection of life.” —from a report sent to William N. Sanders, Galveston, Texas, October 6, 1866

According to the writer, why were many freedmen unhappy with their freedom?

What word does the writer of the excerpt use to describe freedmen?

What did the Fifteenth Amendment do?

What was the main goal of Reconstruction?

Which of the following statements about cowboys is accurate?

The cattle ranches that Mexican Americans owned in the late 1800s were mostly found in which part of Texas?

Why did many Texas farmers switch to dry farming?

Invented the most successful type of barbed wire

Noted African American cowboy and pioneer

Developed a cattle trail to Wyoming

Promoted the railroad transport of cattle out of Texas

Founder of one of Texas’s largest cattle ranches

The completion of the Dallas Ship Channel made the city an important seaport.

What was a boomtown?

At the time, the hurricane that struck Houston in 1900 was the worst natural disaster in U.S. history, causing huge economic damage.

Companies that later became Texaco, Gulf, and Exxon were all launched during the Age of Oil.

Oil was discovered at Spindletop in 1876.

The early 1900s marked the end of what economic era in Texas history?

City whose population jumped from 10,000 to 50,000 in just a few months in 1901

First city in Texas with electric lights and telephones

First oil well in Texas drilled here in 1866