Texas and The Civil War

3. The term used for men, women, and children who had been released from slavery.
5. A serious promise that Sam Houston refused to take, costing him his job as Governor.
6. A formal change to the U.S. Constitution, such as the ones that ended slavery and granted citizenship.
7. What enslaved people in Texas gained on Juneteenth.
9. Unfair laws passed after the war to keep formerly enslaved people from having full rights.
14. The Texas Governor who was removed from office for refusing to take an oath to the Confederacy.
15. A system where farmers worked land owned by someone else in exchange for a portion of the crops.
17. The site of the last land battle of the Civil War, fought in Texas after the war had officially ended.
19. A battle where a small group of Confederate soldiers stopped a Union invasion of Texas at a river crossing.
21. The period after the Civil War focused on rebuilding the South and bringing states back into the Union.
22. The side in the war also known as the Union.

1. The holiday celebrating June 19, 1865, when enslaved people in Texas finally learned they were free.
2. The important Texas port city that was captured by the Union and then retaken by the Confederacy in 1863.
4. People who had fought for or supported the South and had to ask for a pardon to vote again.
8. The act of a state officially leaving the Union.
10. The group of southern states that seceded from the United States.
11. The main crop grown in Texas that was traded for war supplies.
12. Soldiers who fought on horseback, which was very common in the Texas military units.
13. A government group set up to help former slaves get food, clothes, and an education.
16. The President of the United States during the Civil War.
18. The state that was the farthest west in the Confederacy.
20. The side in the war also known as the Confederacy.