Texas History- 5Th Six Weeks Review

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Sectionalism

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The focus on what would benefit aperson’s region rather than the nation as a whole

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Cotton

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The South’s primary economic activity in 1861

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Sam Houston

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Removed as the governor of Texas because he refused to take the oath of allegiance to the Confederacy

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Concerns Houston held with secession

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Fears the North would overwhelm and defeat the South

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Secession

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What a majority of Texans supported before CivilWar started

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Palmito Ranch, Texas

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The last battle of the Civil War on May 13, 1865

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Being attacked and killed without a trial

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Concerns from supporters of the Union living in Texas during the Civil War

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Slavery

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Activity most Texans believed was vital to their economy and caused them to support the Confederacy during the Civil War

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corn and wheat to feed soldiers and civilians

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Crops cotton farmers planted to helped to contribute to the Confederate war effort

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High tariffs

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Most people in the Southern states opposed this because it would cost more to purchase imported products

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Knowledge of the terrain where the battles were fought

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One advantages the Confederacy had over the Union during the Civil War

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The special Interest in Slavery

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While Abraham Lincoln began the Civil War to preserve the Union, this kept everyone fighting during the war

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Disease or infection

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Inadequate food supplies and dirty conditions helped cause two-thirds of Civil War soldiers to die from this

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Gettysburg and Vicksburg

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Two major turning point battles of the Civil War

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Ulysses S. Grant

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Supreme military leader of the Union army during the Civil War from 1864 to1865

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Robert E. Lee

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Supreme military commander of the Confederate Army during the Civil War

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Abraham Lincoln

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President of the United States during the Civil War

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Jefferson Davis

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President of the Confederate States of American

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Emancipation Proclamation

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Declared that the enslaved persons in the Confederate states were free

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Freedmen

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Former slaves who choose to work for their former slaveholders, but for pay

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3 effects of the Emancipation Proclamation

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1. Encouraged African Americans to fight for the Union, 2. Strengthened the Union militarily and politically, 3. Shifted the focus of the war to freedom for all

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3 challenges the Confederacy faced after the war

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1.Many people had died, 2. Property was in ruins, 3. South could no longer depend on the labor of enslaved people

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Main goal of Reconstruction

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Restore the South to the Union as quickly as possible

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Texas’s cheap public lands

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Attraction by many people from other Southern states to Texas

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4 conditions in the southern states at the beginning of Reconstruction

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1. High food prices and crop failures; 2. destroyed railroads, farms, and homes; 3. bank failures and bankrupt businesses; 4. bonds and currency with little to no value

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Thirteenth Amendment

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Amendment Confederate states had to ratify in order to rejoin the Union under President Andrew Johnson’s Reconstruction plan

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Fifteenth Amendment

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Guaranteed African American men the right to vote

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Goal of the abolitionist movement

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The passage of the Thirteenth Amendment

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Black codes

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Laws put into place to restrict freedoms of former slaves.

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Southern states adopting Black Codes

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limited the impact of the ThirteenthAmendment