Texas History

third nine weeks 4.5

blockade

to stop people or supplies from entering or leaving

Emancipation Proclamation

Lincoln’s official announcement to end slavery

Jim Crow laws

racist and exclusive laws

nullify

a legal decision to make something have no effect

What did the Texas economy rely on?

agriculture and slave labor

Who was the governor of Texas that stepped from office?

Governor Sam Houston

When did the Civil War end?

1865

Which amendment ended slavery?

13th amendment

When was Abraham Lincoln elected president?

1860

Which was the most important port in Texas?

Galveston

Who made a plan to take Galveston?

Major General John Magruder

Why was Sabine Pass so important?

it provided access to a railroad straight from the port to Houston

When did 7,000 Union troops capture Brownsville?

1863

Did Shreveport provide the Union or Confederacy?

Confederacy

Who won in the battle of the Palmito Ranch?

The Confederacy

When is Juneteenth?

June 19, 1865

When did the Freedmen’s Bureau come to Texas?

March 1865, five months after the war

Who became president after Abraham Lincoln’s assassination?

Andrew Johnson