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Texas Hist Civil War
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| 13th Amendment | abolished slavery |
| 14th Amendment | Declares that all persons born in the U.S. are citizens and are guaranteed equal protection of the laws |
| 15th Amendment | Citizens cannot be denied the right to vote because of race |
| 1861‐1865 | The American Civil War was a civil war that was fought in the United States. |
| abolish | The act of getting rid of something like slavery. |
| Assassination murder of a public figure | usually for political reasons |
| Battle of Galveston | The Confederate Army recaptured this from Union forces under the command of John Magruder. |
| Battle of Palmito Ranch | Last battle of Civil War fought in Texas after General Lee's surrender. |
| Battle of Sabine Pass | Confederate victory in which the Davis Guards repulsed an invasion of Union gunboats near the Louisiana border. |
| Black Codes | Laws denying most legal rights to newly freed slaves; passed by southern states following the Civil War |
| blockade | an act or means of sealing off a place to prevent goods or people from entering or leaving. |
| Carpetbaggers | A northerner who went to the South immediately after the Civil War; especially one who tried to gain political advantage or other advantages from the disorganized situation in southern states |
| Civil War | A war between people of the same country. |
| Confederate States of America | A republic formed in February of 1861 and composed of the eleven Southern states that seceded from the United States |
| Convict-Lease | The system used by southern governments to furnish mainly African American prison labor to plantation owners and industrialists and to raise revenue for the states. In practice |
| economic effects War can have a dramatic impact on the economic situation of a country | resulting in effects such as inflation or food rationing. |
| freedmen | Enslaved people who had been freed by the war |
| Freedmen's Bureau | Agency set up to aid former slaves in adjusting themselves to freedom. It furnished food and clothing to needy blacks and helped them get jobs |
| Impeach | To formally charge a public official with misconduct in office |
| Juneteenth | June 19th |
| Ku Klux Klan | A secret society created by white southerners in 1866 that used terror and violence to keep African Americans from obtaining their civil rights. |
| literacy test | A test given to persons to prove they can read and write before being allowed to register to vote |
| martial law | Type of rule in which the military is in charge and citizens' rights are suspended. |
| Military District | During Reconstruction |
| point of view | the perspective from which a story is told |
| political effects | The effect that government policy and its administrative practices can have on something. |
| political parties | groups that help elect people and shape policies |
| poll tax | A requirement that citizens pay a tax in order to register to vote |
| Radical Republicans | After the Civil War |
| Reconstruction | the period after the Civil War in the United States when the southern states were reorganized and reintegrated into the Union |
| Scalawag | A derogatory term for Southerners who were working with the North to buy up land from desperate Southerners |
| secession | the formal withdrawal of a state from the Union |
| sectionalism | Loyalty to one's own region of the country |
| Sharecropping | A system used on southern farms after the Civil War in which farmers worked land owned by someone else in return for a small portion of the crops. |
| slavery | A system of enforced servitude in which some people are owned by other people. |
| social effects The effect actions | such as war |
| states' rights | The rights and powers held by individual US states rather than by the federal government. |
| tariffs | Taxes on imported goods |
| Union | During the American Civil War (1861-1865) |
| vagrant | an idle wanderer; homeless. |
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