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- 1. Multiple ChoiceWhat landform was key to the Union to divide and weaken the Confederacy?Mississippi RiverPort of GalvestonPort of New OrleansSabine River
- 2. Multiple ChoiceWhy did African Americans in Texas choose to fight for the Union Army?They had achieved freedom and could do soThey did not want to fight alongside their former ownersA Union victory would result in a quicker end to slaveryThe Union Army paid them
- 3. Multiple ChoiceNortherners wanted to abolish slavery and Southerners wanted to keep slavery. These two divided sections of the US selfishly focused on their own needs. This is called....sectionalismnationalismpatriotismsectarianism
- 4. Multiple ChoiceAfter the Civil War, many freed people set out to own their own land, but ended up living in small communities on what?unused landformer plantation landon land granted to them by US government
- 5. Multiple ChoiceWhat were the 'black codes'?laws limiting the rights of African Americans passed by Southern governments after the Civil Warlaws protecting the newly found rights of freed African Americansanother term for the 13th, 14th and 15th amendmentssecret laws instituted by the Ku Klux Klan
- 6. Multiple ChoiceProhibiting African Americans from serving on juries, testifying against whites in courts, or voting were all ______?black codesbasis for the 13, 14 and 15th amendmentsinclusions to the new Texas Constitution of 1866laws that the Freedman's Bureau tried to abolish
- 7. Multiple ChoiceWhat did the 13th Amendment do?Abolished slaveryGave African American men the right to votedefined national citizenship and forbade the states to restrict the basic rights of citizens or other persons.made it illegal for any state to secede
- 8. Multiple ChoiceWhat did the 14th Amendment guarantee?Slavery would be abolishedThe rights of the freed people would be protectedAfrican American could voteWomen could vote
- 9. Multiple ChoiceWhat did the 15th Amendment guarantee?Slavery is abolishedFreed African Americans' rights are protectedAfrican American men can voteWomen can vote
- 10. Multiple ChoiceWhich Confederate general officially surrendered all Confederate forces in Texas at the end of the Civil War?Edmund Kirby SmithJohn Bell HoodThomas GreenJohn Magruder
- 11. Multiple ChoiceIn which Texas city were factories opened to manufacture weapons and ammunition for the Confederacy?TylerGalvestonLaredoBrownsville
- 12. Multiple ChoiceWhat college provided students who made up most of Terry's Texas Rangers?Baylor UniversityTexas A&MSouthern Methodist UniversityUniversity of Texas at Austin
- 13. Multiple Choice_____ were white Southerners who supported Reconstruction.ScalawagsCarpetbaggersVigilantesScoundrels
- 14. Multiple Choice________ were those who believed that Congress should direct ReconstructionRadical RepublicansScalawagsCarpetbaggersUnionists
- 15. Multiple ChoiceWhat Texas port was the most critical to the Union Army for "Scott's Great Snake"?GalvestonSabine PassBrownsvilleMatamoros
- 16. Multiple ChoiceWhat is the primary reason why Sam Houston lost his job as Texas' governor?He opposed slavery and vowed not to fight againHe swore an oath to the US Constitution and an oath to the Confederate States of America would violate thatHe refused to be part of a war he was convinced the Confederacy could never winHe was convinced it was not in Texas' best interest to secede
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