TX History Vocab

Question 1

Why did Sam Houston choose to stop being the governor of Texas?

Answer 1

He was loyal to the US and not in favor of Texas seceding and joining the confederacy.

Question 2

The North wanted to abolish (end) slavery; The South wanted to keep slavery True or False

Answer 2

True

Question 3

Which side of the country had an economy (the way they made money) based on INDUSTRY?

Answer 3

North

Question 4

The North wanted high tariffs (taxes) because?

Answer 4

High tariffs would force people to buy things made in the USA

Question 5

Harriet Beecher Stowe wrote which of the following books?

Answer 5

Uncle Tom’s Cabin

Question 6

Jefferson Davis was the president of which side?

Answer 6

The Confederacy (South)

Question 7

In which of the following years did the Civil War begin?

Answer 7

1861

Question 8

Rights are given to each state from the federal government.

Answer 8

State’s rights

Question 9

The North was referred to as?

Answer 9

The Union

Question 10

Why did the South not want to end slavery?

Answer 10

Their economy depended on slave labor

Question 11

Why did the South want low tariffs?

Answer 11

The South mostly imported or brought in most of their goods

Question 12

The South of the USA; Rebels; Gray Uniforms

Answer 12

Confederacy

Question 13

The Civil War began in ______ and ended in 1865.

Answer 13

1861

Question 14

What was so important about Uncle Tom’s Cabin?

Answer 14

The book showed the horrors of slavery

Question 15

The North; Yankees; Blue Uniforms

Answer 15

The Union

Question 16

Which side of the had an economy (the way they made money) based on AGRICULTURE?

Answer 16

The South

Question 17

Why were Southerners upset about the book Uncle Tom’s Cabin?

Answer 17

The book made them look bad and more people became abolitionists

Question 18

Agriculture is associated with farming. Which side of the country had large-scale farms known as plantations?

Answer 18

The South

Question 19

Who was elected president of the US in 1860?

Answer 19

Abraham Lincoln

Question 20

How did the South feel about abolishing slavery?

Answer 20

That doing so would be against their state’s rights

Question 21

The southern states that seceded in 1861 became known as

Answer 21

The Confederacy

Question 22

The document that freed slaves in the Southern states was called the

Answer 22

Emancipation Proclamation

Question 23

When a government official breaks the law and is removed from office

Answer 23

Impeach

Question 24

Who was elected president of the US in 1860?

Answer 24

Abraham Lincoln

Question 25

to withdraw from a group or organization, especially a political body?

Answer 25

Secede

Question 26

What was the name given by Southerners to Northerners who moved to the South during Reconstruction?

Answer 26

Carpetbaggers

Question 27

Favoring a region of the country rather than the interest of the entire nation

Answer 27

Sectionalism

Question 28

A farmer who receives an agreed share of the crop minus charges

Answer 28

Sharecropper

Question 29

right to vote for all men regardless of race (Amendment)

Answer 29

15

Question 30

a person who lives and works on another person’s land, usually by contract

Answer 30

Tenant Farmer

Question 31

Southern writers who supported reconstruction after the Civil War are called?

Answer 31

Scalawags

Question 32

The law applied in occupied territory by the military authority of the occupying power?

Answer 32

Martial Law

Question 33

the South’s hope that European dependence on cotton would allow the South to receive necessary aid during the Civil War?

Answer 33

Cotton Diplomacy

Question 34

political powers reserved/given to states instead of the federal government?

Answer 34

States right’s

Question 35

Document signed by Abraham Lincoln freeing the slaves in the “rebellious states” in 1863?

Answer 35

Emancipation Proclamation

Question 36

The period of recovery and rebuilding of the U.S. following the Civil War?

Answer 36

Reconstruction

Question 37

A tax on imported or exported goods?

Answer 37

Tariffs

Question 38

gave citizenship & equal protection under the law to all US citizens?

Answer 38

14

Question 39

The amendment that ended slavery

Answer 39

13