1. Chapter 15-16 Texas History Review
Questions and Answers

2. What is the forced enrollment of people into military service?

3. Conscription

4. What was the period in which new governments were organized in the Southern States after the Civil War?

5. Reconstruction

6. What did the proclamation that General Granger issued on June 19, 1865 say?

7. All enslaved people were free

8. What is the meaning of nullify?

9. Cancel

10. What was the purpose of the Freedman’s Bureau?

11. Assisted newly freed African Americans in the South

12. How long was it before many African Americans learned of emancipation?

13. 2 years

14. What were some of the problems during Reconstruction?

15. Money scarce Many African Americans were without food or shelter Differences between North and South continued

16. What 2 amendments did the Texas legislature refuse to ratify?

17. 13th and 14th Amendments

18. What were the provisions of the 13th and 14th Amendments?

19. Freed the slaves and gave them citizenship

20. What is the meaning of ratify?

21. Approve

22. What were black codes?

23. Laws limiting the rights of African Americans after the Civil War

24. Who pushed for stricter standards for admitting the Southern states back into the Union?

25. Radical Republicans

26. What oath did Southerners have to take before they could vote?

27. Ironclad Oath

28. What did most former Confederates think about the Radical Reconstruction Plan?

29. Too harsh

30. The Senate failed by one vote to convict President Johnson; he remained President but what happened to his influence?

31. Lost most of his influence

32. What were white southerners who supported reconstruction called?

33. Scalawags

34. What were northerners who came South during Reconstruction called?

35. Carpetbaggers

36. What political party used violence and threats to prevent African Americans from voting?

37. Democratic

38. On March 30, 1870 what proclamation did President Ulysses S. Grant sign?

39. Proclamation ending Reconstruction in Texas

40. What political party were African Americans most likely to support?

41. Republican

42. Texas had largely been spared the destruction suffered by __________

43. Most of the South during the Civil War

44. The Emancipation Proclamation of 1863 did what?

45. Freed slaves in Confederate states

46. Who set strict standards for admitting Southern states back into the Union?

47. Radical Republicans

48. How many Texans served in the Confederate military?

49. 60,000

50. Despite Union blockades of its ports, Texans continued to ship cotton to Europe through where?

51. Mexico

52. Why did the Union want to gain control of Galveston?

53. It was an important port

54. From what city did Union forces launch an invasion of Texas?

55. New Orleans

56. What battle ended Union plans to launch a major campaign against Texas?

57. Battle of Sabine Pass

58. What sacrifices were the Texans forced to make during the war?

59. Wore homespun clothes, used coffee substitutes and tea, stopped publishing newspapers, did without medicines and hospital supplies

60. What were some of jobs women held during the Civil War?

61. Worked on farms, were nurses, made uniforms, taught, became shopkeepers and drivers

62. Where was the last battle of the Civil War?

63. Palmito Ranch

64. The North’s victory in the Civil War meant ________

65. The Union was preserved

66. How many people died as a result of the Civil War?

67. More than 600,000