Texas History

Chapters 10 and 11

Election of 1859

John Brown

Knights of the Golden Circle

fires of 1860

Election of 1860

Texas Secession Convention

O.M. Roberts

John S. (Rip) Ford

New Mexico campaign

John R. Baylor

Francis R. Lubbock

conscription laws

Great Gainesville Hanging

Battle of Galveston

Battle of Sabine Pass

Palmito Ranch

Andrew Johnson

General Philip Sheridan

Thirteenth Amendment

James Throckmorton

E.M. Pease

black codes

Freedmen's Bureau

Union Leagues

E.J. Davis

Constitution of 1869

Richard Coke

Essay

Within a 15 years of having joined the United States, Texas left the union in 1861. What do you see as the reason for secession? From a national viewpoint, how does Texas help cause the Civil War? Who votes for secession in 1861? Against secession? How does Sam Houston fit into all this?

How is Texas an asset to the South in the Civil War? What battles and campaigns take place in Texas and involved Texas? What happens to the people who support the North during the war? How is Texas different from the other southern states during and at the end of the war?

From whose viewpoint has Texas history of Reconstruction generally been written? What ideas and groups of people do the Republicans and the Democrats represent from 1866 through 1877? What happens in Texas as result of congressional reconstruction compared to presidential Reconstruction? What is the role of the Freedman's bureau during Reconstruction? How did the state Constitution of 1876 evolve? What does the Constitution of 1876 try to do.

What was the issue that caused the conflict between the Native Americans and the state of Texas between 1865 -1880? What were the different policies of the United States government and Texas towards the Native Americans? What did Richard Coke have to do with the Indian policies? What did most white Texans seem to want to happen to Native Americans? What you think the policy should have been?

Why did the cattle industry and Texas become important economically and psychologically to Texas after Civil War? How do we know that Texas cattle industry had Spanish and Mexican roots? Where did most of the money come from for the big ranches?

Why was Texas been such a violent society?