Civil War Test (Texas)

Word Bank

Secede
Ulysses S. Grant
Reconstruction
Abolitionist
Blockade
Robert E. Lee
Civil War
Jefferson Davis
Abraham Lincoln
John Wilkes Booth
States’ rights

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A person who wanted to end slavery.

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A nation at war with itself.

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Closing of a port by positioning ships to keep supplies or people from moving in or out.

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Commander of the Confederate Army

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Plan to restore the South to the Union

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Withdraw from something

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Commander of the Union Army

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The last battle fought in Texas

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One advantage for the Confederacy was

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One disadvantage for the Confederacy was

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Because the South was a farming economy

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Which of the following was NOT a cause of the Civil War?

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Because the North had a lot of industry

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Which of the following did NOT occur in Texas after the Civil War

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In which Texas region did most Civil War battle occur?

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What system of labor replaced slave labor after the Civil War?

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During which years did the Civil War take place?

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The Confederacy won the Civil War

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The term "Union" refers to the North

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Texas remained part of the Union during the Civil War

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The biggest cash crop in Texas was

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Why did the election of Abraham Lincoln upset Southerns?

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How did Texans decide the issue of secession?

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Why was Sam Houston removed from office?

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Which important port city was briefly taken by Union forces before being retaken by Confederates in 1862?

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What was the main objective of the Union forces along the Texas coast?

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In general, the Union military was extremely successful in battles of Texas

Interpreting Primary Sources- Read the passages and answer the questions that
follow.

"It was just before we left the house on the flat.. that Civil War was declared, and I can recall many pictures in Harper's Weekly then of the rising of the war cloud.
War times began their hard pinch here and one of the dearest memories I have of them is that mother had no tea, we gathered the leaves of yaupon shrub...they made a substitute, but only a substitute; then white flour was almost impossible to get, and no one had whitebread but Mother and Mary...As for clothing, Confederate money was of little value and even if it had been, cloth was almost impossible to get."
-Lillie Barr Munroe; Resident of Austin during Civil War

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The main purpose of this passage is to

Some of you laugh to scorn the idea of bloodshed as the result of secession. But let me tell you what is coming. You sons and brothers, will be herded at the point of the bayonet. You may, after the sacrifice of countless millions of treasure and hundreds of thousands of lives, as a bare possibility, win southern Independence... but I doubt it... The North is determined to preserve the Union... When they begin to move in a given direction, they will move with the steady momentum and perseverance of a mighty avalanche; and what I fear is, they will overwhelm the South.
Sam Houston; Speech in Galveston, February 1861

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The quote above can BEST be described as a

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Houston tried to persuade the people of Texas to secede from the Union when he was Governor of Texas

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This Battle was actually after the Civil War

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Which General surrendered at Appomattox Court House (Virginia)?

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