22. Fewer Civil War battles were fought on Texas soil because:

23. What happened at the battle of Sabine Pass?

24. What happened at the Battle of Galveston?

25. What is the importance of the Battle of Palmito Ranch?

14. Who was the president of the United States during the Civil War?

15. After the South Carolina was the first state to secede in 1860, what did Texas do in 1861?

16. Which Texas military unit was sent to Virginia to fight in the Civil War? General Robert E. Lee called them “My Texans”.

17. Where did Terry’s Texas Rangers fight during the Civil War?

18. What was Texas known as during the Civil War?

9. What did the southern states threaten to do if Abraham Lincoln won the election of 1860?

10. Why did the southern states make this threat?

11. How did Sam Houston feel about the possibility of Texas seceding from the United States?

12. What was Sam Houston’s goal in 1860?

13. When Texas joined the other southern states in seceding from the United States what did Sam Houston do?

1. The Republican Party was formed in 1854 to:

Torom spreading to the western territories2. What were the causes of the American Civil War? Slavery, Protective tariffs, Sectionalism, Strong federal govt vs States Rights3. The main goal of the abolitionist movement was to:

To end slavery4. What primary crop accounted for the large increase in the slave population during the 1800’s in Texas? Cotton

5. Texas generally supported slavery because:They thought it was necessary for the southern economy

6. In the years before the Civil War, Texans who supported the right to own slaves would also have supported?

7. In the early 1800’s most southern plantation owners opposed tariffs because they thought that tariffs would?

8. What was one of the major economic differences between the South and the North before the Civil War?

“To secede from the Union and set up another government would cause war. If you go to war with the United States, you will never conquer her, as she has the money and men. If she does not whip you by guns, powder and steel, she will starve you to death. It will take the flower of the country--- the young men”.

Governor Sam Houston

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