Civil War and Reconstruction

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  1. 2. This replaces a normal state government with military rule
  2. 4. Statement declaring all slaves were set free.
  3. 6. Confederate General during the Civil War.
  4. 7. What the was South called after seceding from the United States
  5. 8. Man who led the most fearsome group of soldiers from Texas.
  6. 11. General put in charge of the 5th military district which included Texas
  7. 13. Beaome president after Abraham Lincoln is assassinated and is in control of Reconstruction.
  8. 16. To formally withdraw from a partnership or Union. The South did this before the Civil War.
  9. 17. 15th amendment gave African American men the right to ___________.
  10. 19. A period of time in the United States after the Civil War where the government was attempting to bring the Southern states back into the Union.
  11. 20. Union army attacked this city in an attempt to capture the port and not allow Texas to continue to ship Cotton.
  12. 22. Discriminatory laws passed throughout the South used to limit the rights of African Americans.
  13. 24. division between the North and the South because of different economies and ways of life.
  14. 25. rights and powers held by individual US states rather than by the federal government.
  15. 26. Institution in which people are used for manual labor with little to no freedoms.
  16. 27. Elected as Governor of Texas in 1866.
  17. 28. Union General that would become the President of the United States.
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  1. 1. Group of politicians who took over congress in 1866 and changed the way reconstruction was happening
  2. 3. Where the first battle of the Civil War took place.
  3. 5. Final battle of the Civil War that took place one month after the war had ended (Battle of ___________)
  4. 9. 14th amendment gave African Americans _______________ and equal rights.
  5. 10. Man who led the constitutional convention of 1868-69 who would go on to be the Governor of Texas.
  6. 12. The day the slaves were set free in Texas. Now it's a Federal Holiday.
  7. 14. Government institution created to help newly freed people start their lives after slavery.
  8. 15. What the South was split into during Congressional Reconstruction
  9. 18. Document written in Texas to create the basis of our government ( ________ of 1869)
  10. 21. Union army attempted to capture Fort Griffin to launch attacks on mainland Texas (Battle of ________)
  11. 23. 13th amendment made ___________ illegal in the United States.