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1. As a result of the South’s surrender, the Texas state government (p. 357)
Collapsed
2. All of these happened to Unionists who did not join the Confederate Army (p. 349)
Arrested, forced into the army, killed while fleeing to MX
3. Most delegates to the Texas convention after the 1860 election (p. 344-345)
Favored Secession
4. Most Southerners in the 1850s believed that the rise of the Republican Party would mean (p. 343)
End of the Southern way of life
5. Members of the 1861 convention in Montgomery, Alabama, formed the (p. 345)
Confederate States of America
6. During the Civil War, all of the following products were scarce (p. 355-356)
Paper, flour, salt
7. If the Republicans won the 1860 election, Southern leaders threatened to (p. 343)
Secede from the Union
8. All of these states seceded from the Union (p. 344)
Georgia, Alabama, Florida
9. During the Civil War, women did all of the following (p. 355)
Work on farms, serve as nurses, sew uniforms for troops
10. How many Texans served in the Confederate Army? (p. 348)
60,000
11. Texas Governors Lubbock and Murrah spent much of their time in office working for the (p. 355)
Confederate war effort
12. The Texas Secession Convention ordered all state officials to take an oath of allegiance to (p. 345)
The Confederacy
13. Conscription is (p. 348)
Forced enrollment into military service
14. Site of the first Civil War battle (p. 346)
Fort Sumter
15. City where Union forces launched an invasion of Texas in 1864 (p. 352)
New Orleans
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16. Battle that dashed Union plans to launch a major campaign against Texas (p. 351)
Battle of Sabine Pass
17. City where vigilantes hanged suspected Unionists (p. 350)
Gainesville
18. Site of the last Civil War battle (p. 357)
Palmito Ranch
Chapter 16 Study Guide
1. Problems during Reconstruction:
Scarcity of Money, bitterness between North and South, lack of food and shelter for freedmen
2. On June 19, 1865, General Granger issued a proclamation declaring that all (p. 367)
Enslaved people were free
3. The Texas Constitution of 1866 failed to (p. 370)
Give African Americans the right to vote
4. Most former Confederates felt the Radical Republicans’ plan for Reconstruction was (p. 376)
Too harsh
5. The Constitution of 1869 provided more support for (p. 376)
Public education
6. On March 30, 1870, President Grant signed a proclamation ending (p. 376)
Reconstruction in TX
7. The Union general whose cavalry occupied Austin in 1865 was (p. 368)
George A. Custer
8. After being impeached, President Johnson (p. 375)
Lost most of his influence
9. The period of reestablishing governments in the South after the Civil War is called (p. 366)
Reconstruction
10. The Emancipation Proclamation of 1863 (p. 367)
Freed slaves in Confederate states
11. Many delegates who wrote the Texas Constitution of 1866 were (p. 370)
Supporters of the Confederacy
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12. African Americans were most likely to vote for (p. 374)
Republicans
13. The military commander of Texas and Louisiana during Reconstruction was (p. 375)
Philip Sheridan
14. The person appointed governor in Texas in 1867 was (p. 376)
Elisha M. Pease
15. What oath did Southerners have to take before they could vote? (p. 375)
Ironclad Oath
16. The president of the United States impeached during Reconstruction was (p. 375)
Andrew Johnson
17. Refusal by a president or government to approve a law (p. 374)
Veto
18. Approve formally (p. 374)
Ratify
19. Cancel (p. 368)
Nullify
20. Bring charges against (p. 374)
Impeach
21. Required (p. 378)
Compulsory
22. Southern whites who supported Reconstruction (p. 376)
Scalawags
23. Northerners who came to the South during Reconstruction (p. 376)
Carpetbaggers
24. Laws limiting the rights of African Americans after the Civil War (p. 374)
Black Codes
25. Set strict standards for admitting Southern states back into the Union (p. 374)
Radical Republicans
26. Declared all slaves free (p. 367)
General Order, No. 3