History Exams Word Scramble
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Question | Answer |
Causes of the War | Taxes. Public Lands. States' Rights. Slavery. |
Democratic party | found mostly in the southern states "mostly common people" |
Republican party | Found mostly in the Northern states "mostly rich people"--aginst slavery/ lincoln was the first republican president. |
The civil war | began on April 12, 1861 and ended on April 9, 1865 |
ordinance of secession | on january 28th 1861 Texas secceded from the U.S./ we were the 7th state to seccede out 11/ Lamar county voted aginst secession |
Montgomery | The first capitol of the confederacy - later on the capitol was moved to Richmond, Virginia |
Jefferson Davis | was the first and last president of the Confederacy |
Abraham Lincoln | was elected president in 1860/ he was the first Republican president |
Sam Houston | Houston was removed from office (governer) in 1861 because he refused to take the oath of allegiance to the confederacy |
Ft. Sumter | the rebels fired on Ft. Sumter at Charleston, South Caolina on April 12, 1861--- the war begins |
Conscription act of 1862 | both the North and South drafted soldiers/ you could hire a substitute/ all able bodied men were required to serve. |
James W. Throckmorton | a unionist who later became a rebel general and was elected governer after the war/// The union Congressmen removed him from office |
The North's Plan for winning the war | 1. Capture the mississippi and cut the south in half 2. capture Richmond "the rebel capitol" 3. Blockade the southern coast |
Albert S. Johnston | the rebel commander of the army of Tennessee/ he was killed at the battle of Shilohin 1862 *important general* |
Milton Holland | (texan) the first african american to get a medal of honor |
Santos Benavides | a tejano who helped the rebels stop a union advance up the Rio Grande and helped re-capture Galveston later on |
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