B4 Final Review 2025

2. Name the fourth reason Texas became involved in the Civil War: states' rights, tariffs, slavery, and _________.
4. A national debate of this issue delayed Texas from becoming a state.
5. Significant because it was the site of the last Civil War battle.
9. In 1845, Dr. Jones attended a ceremony where he lowered the Texas flag and raised the U.S. flag to signal this event.
10. Texas joined this side during the Civil War over concerns of the growing number of Free African Americans.
13. The 13th Amendment did this to slavery.
14. The Battle of Galveston was important because if the ________ were left in control, their forces could easily sweep into Texas if this battle was not won!
15. On June 19, 1865, General Gordon Granger issued a proclamation at Galveston declaring that these people were free!
16. Ranching, sharecropping, tenant farming and railroad construction came to dominate the state’s economy during ________.
18. In 1861, the first shots of the Civil War were _____.
19. Major General John B. Magruder expelled Union troops who had a naval blockade on the Texas coast during which battle?
20. The Compromise of 1850 helped Texas by paying off _____.
21. The 15th Amendment gave Freemen this right.

1. Many former slaves became trapped in a cycle of debt as an effect of which system?
3. Which Bureau established schools for African American children?
5. Sam Houston opposed the secession of Texas on the grounds that the Union and U.S. Constitution were worth _____.
6. The Treaty of Guadalupe - ________ resulted in the U.S. acquiring much of the southwestern region.
7. Adopted in 1876 and still current to Texas.
8. What month of 1854 did the Kansas-Nebraska Act happen?
11. The 14th Amendment gave this to freed slaves.
12. Which settlers clashed with Texans over the issue of slavery?
17. Dispute over territory north of this river was a cause of the U.S. Mexican War.