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Civil War Q
Questions for Texas History study Guide
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| What does abolition mean? | putting and end to something by law |
| What does secession mean? | When 11 southern states, including Texas left the union and formed the Confederate States of America. |
| What does federal rights mean? | Belief that most power resides with the federal government, and that all laws passed must be obeyed by the states. |
| What is slavery? | Is what the south viewed as a necessity to maintaining economic wealth and north viewed it as evil. |
| What is a tariff? | A tax placed on exports or imports. |
| What is nationalism? | Loyalty to one's country 1st, and to one's state 2nd. |
| What is sectionalism? | Loyalty to one's state 1st, and to one's country 2nd. |
| What was the Battle of Palmito Ranch? | Actual last battle of the civil war took place after official surrender at Appotomaxx. The confederacy won the battle, but lost the war. |
| What was the Battle of Fort Sumter? | The battle that started the war,was in South Carolina when confederate troops attacked, when the Union garrison tried to leave the south. |
| What was Appotomaxx Courthouse? | Where the confederacy surrendered to the union troops, which ended the Civil war (although Palmito happened afterward.) |
| Why did the south threaten to secede from the union? | If all the newly admitted states weren't slave states. |
| What was fighting in Texas for? | Was conceived around confederate efforts to keep Texas ports open. |
| What was states rights? | A belief that a state could secede because each had joined the union voluntarily and the state government had greater power than national government. |
| Who was Robert E. Lee? | A highly respected general of the confederate army |
| Who is Ulysses S. Grant? | Union general who accepted the south's surrender at Appotomaxx Courthouse and later became president of the U.S. |
| Who is Jefferson Davis? | He was the president of the confederacy. |
| Who is Sam Houston? | He refused to continue serving as the governor of Texas when the states seceded to the confederacy. |
| What was Galveston? | The busiest port in Texas, and a major link in the supply of goods; which the union lost control on January 1,1863. |
| What was the storehouse of the confederacy? | Texas provided horses, food, AND weapons for the war effort by continuing to the statehouse. |
| What were Civil War Battles in Texas? | Galveston Island, Sabine Pass, and Palmito Ranch were battles that occurred along Texas barriers. |
| What was the Battle of Sabine pass? | A battle that occurred on a waterway/channel (Sabine Pass) between Louisiana and Texas where confederates sunk union ships. |
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