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Civil War 1861- 1865
1. Causes: Tariffs, Distribution of public lands, States Rights, Slavery
2. Northerners – Republican Party –Abolitionists
Southerners – Democratic Party – blamed for the economic depression of
the late 1850’s.
3. If Republicans won the election of 1860, South would secede from the
Union.
4. Houston opposed secession – Most delegates to the Texas convention after
the 1860 election favored secession.
5. Houston was removed from office when he refused to take an oath of
allegiance to the Confederacy.
6. Confederate Constitution – States were given more power and the Federal
Government was given less.
7. Jefferson Davis – President of the Confederacy
8. Robert E. Lee –Commander of the Confederate Army
9. Abraham Lincoln – President of the Union
10. First battle of the Civil War - April 12, 1861 – U.S. troops refused to
evacuate Fort Sumter in Charleston, S.C.
11. 60,000 Texans served in the Confederacy, 1/3 E of Miss. R.
12.Union leaders wanted to gain control of Galveston because it had a busy
seaport.
13. Union Navy used its ships to blockade Texas ports because it was a vital
link in the Confederate chain of supplies
14. Despite a blockade to its ports, Texas continued to send cotton to Europe
through Mexico.
15. East of the Mississippi – Hood’s Texas Brigade and Terry’s Texas Rangers
were distinguished Confederate units.
Continued on the back
16. April 9, 1865 – Lee surrenders to Ulysses S. Grant
17. Lincoln shot by John Wilkes Booth 5 days after the surrender
18. May 13, 1865 – Last battle of the Civil War - Palmito Ranch (Brownsville) Confederate Victory.
19. Emancipation Proclamation – Freed Slaves in Texas June 19 - Juneteenth
20. Reconstruction – period of rebuilding Union; bringing back the seceded
states.
21. Most former confederates felt the Radical Republicans’ plan for
Reconstruction was too harsh.
22. The federal agency created to assist newly freed slaves was the
Freedman’s Bureau. The Freedman’s Bureau helped former slaves in all of
the following ways: finding them jobs, defending their rights in court,
providing food and clothing.
23. The organization that used violence to prevent African Americans from
voting was the Ku Klux Klan.
24. On March 3, 1870, President Grant signed a proclamation ending
Reconstruction in Texas.
25.The president of the U.S. impeached during Reconstruction was Andrew
Johnson.
26. 13th amendment – Abolished slavery
27. 14th amendment – Granted citizenship to former slaves
28. 15th amendment – Granted African American men the right to vote.
29. Dates of the Civil War – 1861-1865
30. Results of the Civil War: Slavery ended, more than 600,000 people died,
and the Confederacy was defeated.