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Civil War and Reconstruction. 1. What happened when the Southern states seceded?. They broke their ties to the United States forming their own country, called the Confederate States of America. 2. Who was president of the Confederacy?. Jefferson Davis. 3. What was the Confederacy?.
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They broke their ties to the United States forming their own country, called the Confederate States of America.
8. What was the first battle of the Civil War fought on Northern soil?
9. This was where the surrender of the Civil War was signed.
10. What body of water is the Siege of Vicksburg near? • Why was the battle important to the outcome of the war?
The Mississippi River • Whoever won the battle controlled the river
President of the United states during the Civil War • Gave the Gettysburg Address • Wrote the Emancipation Proclamation
Texas had to write a new constitution in order to rejoin the Union
15. The Freedman’s Bureau gave former slaves what advantage?
16. How did the economy of Texas change after the Civil War?
17. How were former slaves affected by the new Texas constitutions written after the Civil War?