Civil War and Reconstruction in Texas

How did slavery influence Texas to enter the Civil War?

• Most Texans believed slavery was wrong and wanted to end it. 
• Most Texans did not own slaves so it did not have an influence. 
•  Most Texans believed that slavery was vital to their economy. 
• Most Texans wanted to end the slave trade.

In Texas history, what is the significance of the year 1861? 

• The legislature passed a law making fence-cutting a felony. 
• Hurricane winds destroyed the area surrounding Galveston. 
• Charles Goodnight created the first cattle ranch in the Texas Panhandle. 
• The Secession Convention decided that Texas should withdraw from the Union.

What was the significance of the Battle of Palmito Ranch? 

• First major battle of the Civil War
• Last major battle of the Civil War
• Turning point of the Civil War
• Last major battle of the Texas Revolution

What Texas port was the most critical to the Union Army for "Scott's Great Snake"?

• Galveston
• Sabine Pass
• Brownsville
• Matamoros

At the end of a harvest, a sharecropper would usually pay a land owner:

• the cash that was earned when the crops were sold.
• a portion of the crops that were produced.
• nothing.
• all of the crops that were produced.

 How did slavery lead to Texas’ involvement in the Civil War? 

• Texas believed in slavery and did not want it abolished
• Texas did not believe in slave labor
• Texas was the only southern state to support the North
• Slavery did not lead to Texas’ involvement in the war

The 13th Amendment deals mostly with what topic?

• Abolishing Slavery
• Registering Voters
• Electing Vice Presidents
• Local Elections

The 15th Amendment?

• gave black males the right to vote
• defined who a citizen was
• abolished slavery
• gave D.C. the right to vote

Which Amendment states that anyone born in the United States is a citizen?

• 14th
• 15th
• 16th
• 13th

What agency was created by the United States Congress in 1865 to set up schools and churches, supply food and clothing, and solve employment issues for the former slaves?

• the American Missionary Association
• the Freedmen's Bureau
• the Ku Klux Klan
• the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People - NAACP