Chapter 15 Section 1 Texas Secession

Chapter 15 Section 1 – Texas Secession (Page 342)

1. What were the Confederate States of America?

2. What was the main issue that divided the Northern and Southern states?

3. What does secede mean?

4. Why did Southern states feel they should be allowed to leave the Union voluntarily?

5. When did Southern states begin to secede?

6. Why did Sam Houston oppose Secession?

7. What did the Ordinance of Secession state?

8. What was the main difference between the U.S. and Confederate Constitutions?

9. Who was elected president of the Confederacy?

10. Why was Sam Houston removed from office?

11. Why did Abraham Lincoln offer to send Union troops to Texas?

12. Who replaced Sam Houston as governor of Texas?

13. What did Sam Houston do after he was removed as governor?

14. What does perpetual mean?

15. What marked the beginning of the Civil War?