| Term | Definition |
|---|
| Allegiance | loyalty |
| What did Southern states do when Lincoln was elected president? | Seceded from the Union |
| What group supported the Secession Convention | The special session of the Texas Legislature of 1861 |
| Whose office was declared vacant for refusing to sign an oath of allegiance to the Confederacy | Sam Houston |
| The belief that the federal government should not have too much power over states is known as | State's Rights |
| a group of Texans who did not want to fight in the Union in the Civil War | German Americans |
| What state exchanged cotton for supplies in Europe for the Confederate side? | Texas |
| Recaptured Galveston in 1863 by attacking Union vessels in Galveston harbor with Refitted river steamers | General John B. Magruder |
| The federal fort captured by Confederate volunteers in 1861 | San Antonio |
| Ended Union plans to launch a campaign against Texas | The Battle of the Sabine Pass |
| Actor who killed President Lincoln | John Wilkes Booth |
| Texas governor who entered the Confederate Army | Francis R. Lubbock |
| Texas governor who fled to Mexico after the war ended | Pendleton Murrah |
| Commander who surrendered to Grant on April 9, 1865 | Robert E. Lee |
| Converted her home into a hospital | Rosanna Osterman |
| Last battle of the Civil War took place in | Palmito Ranch, Texas |
| Freed all slaves in Confederate states | The Emancipation Proclamtion |
| A mixture of rye, meal, Indian corn, and sweet potatoes | Confederate Coffee |
| Goods were prevented from reaching the South by | A Union blockade |
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