Texas and the Civil War Lecture Review

This set covers key vocabulary, historical figures, and significant events regarding Texas's involvement in the American Civil War, based on chapter 7 lesson 1.

Plantations

Large farms that produce crops to sell, where most African American slaves worked.

Abolitionists

People who want to end slavery; they believed that all people should be free.

States' Rights

An issue of disagreement where the South believed if a state disagreed with a law, they should have the right to nullify it.

Nullify

To cancel a law.

Abraham Lincoln

The candidate elected President of the United States in 1860 who was against slavery.

Secede

To officially leave the United States, as many Southern states began to do in 1860.

March 5, 1861

The date Texas officially seceded from the United States.

Confederate States of America

The new country formed by the 11 states that left the United States, including Texas.

Jefferson Davis

The person elected as the president of the Confederate States of America.

Fort Sumter

The location in South Carolina where the first shots of the Civil War were fired on April 12, 1861.

Cavalry

A group of soldiers who fight on horseback.

Emancipation Proclamation

An order issued by President Lincoln in 1863 that declared all persons being held as slaves were now free.

Blockade

An effort to stop ships from going in or out of a port, used by the North to help defeat the South.

General Robert E. Lee

The Confederate General who surrendered to Union General Ulysses S. Grant in Virginia in April 1865.

General Ulysses S. Grant

The Union General to whom Confederate General Robert E. Lee surrendered.

Brownsville, Texas

The location where the final battle of the Civil War took place on May 13, 1865.