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Unit 8 People ID: Texas During the Civil War & Reconstruction (On-Level)
For each definition, identify the person being described. Please write the full names with correct capitalization. All names need to be spelled correctly too. Use your Unit 8 Plan, Notes, and Chapters 16 & 17 as well as the textbook index to find the answers. HINT: Read the text in order to find names…#1-14 is Ch. 16, and #15-20 is Ch. 17.
1. ______ First Republican President of the U.S. His election in 1860 led to
seven southern states seceding. Felt the South had no legal right to leave the Union, because it was a permanent Union.
2. ______ A Texan who became the postmaster general of the CSA in
President Davis’s cabinet in early 1861.
3. ______ Texas lieutenant governor that took the oath of the
Confederacy and became governor, replacing Sam Houston.
4. ______ President of the Confederate States of America (CSA) in 1861.
Originally called volunteers to fight, but later endorsed the
Conscription Acts.
5. ______ Commanded the Texas forces known as Hood’s Brigade in the
Confederate Army from 1862 – end of Civil War. His troops fought bravely and earned the highest respect from both Union and Confederate sides during the War.
6. ______ Commanding General of the Army of Northern Virginia, the main Confederate military force. Surrendered to General Grant
at Appomattox Courthouse, Virginia, April 9, 1865, which officially ended the Civil War. Also commanded Hood’s Texas Brigade.
7. ______ Commanded the Texas military unit known as Terry’s Texas
Rangers. He fought with the Confederacy and was killed in battle in December 1861. His unit fought in battles from Tennessee to Georgia.
8. ______ Free African American Texan that led his Union Army unit to
victory in December 1864 after all his commanders had been killed. Awarded the Medal of Freedom for his courage and leadership.
9. ______ Confederate commander of Texas in 1863. Attacked Union
forces in January 1863 and successfully retook the port of Galveston for the CSA.
10. ______ Confederate Army officer who fought in the Battle of Galveston.
Commanded the Bayou City river steamer gunboat and led cavalry units for much of the war.
11. ______ Democrat elected governor of Texas in 1861; devoted much of
his time working for the Confederate war effort. He entered the Confederate army in 1863 after his term had ended.
12. ______ Elected governor in 1863. Served in this office until the end of
the Civil War; fled to Mexico in June 1865 to escape Union troops and left Texas lawless.
13. ______ Considered the Union’s best general, he became General of all
Union Armies in late 1863; was responsible for all strategies that caused Lee to surrender, officially ending the Civil War. Later became U.S. president.
14. ______ This actor and southern sympathizer believed he was helping
the Confederate cause by assassinating Abraham Lincoln on
April 14, 1865.
15. ______ Lincoln’s Vice President who became President after Lincoln
was assassinated in April 1864. Wanted to carry out Lincoln’s original Presidential Reconstruction plan.
16. ______ Appointed as provisional governor in June 1865 by President
Andrew Johnson to replace Governor Murrah after the collapse of the Texas state government.
17. ______ Union General that led a force of troops that arrived in
Galveston on June 19 “Juneteenth”, 1865. He announced Lincoln’s Emancipation Proclamation, declaring all enslaved Texans were free.
18. ______ After the War began, he took an oath to support the
Confederacy and was a brigadier general in the Texas state troops. He was elected governor of Texas in 1866, and was unwilling to grant many rights to African Americans.
19. ______ Radical Republican elected Texas governor in 1869. Had the
legislature improve roads and set up a system of free public schools that had compulsory attendance.
20. ______ Former Confederate army officer from Waco and Democrat
elected Texas governor in 1873. His governorship began Democratic control over the state government for the next 105 years.