Unit 6: Chapters 15-16

Name: ______Date: ______Period: ______Unit 6: Chapters 15-16 People ID

Chapter 15:

1. ______This actor believed he was helping the Confederate cause (part of a major conspiracy) by assassinating Abraham Lincoln on April 14, 1865.

2. ______President of the Confederate States of America (CSA) in 1861. Originally called volunteers to fight, but later endorsed the Consctiption Acts.

3. ______Commander of the Davis Guards during the battle at Sabine Pass in Jan, 1863. Battle was a CSA victory and ended Union Attempts to land troops anywhere along the Sabine River until 1865.

4. ______Former Texas Ranger and Mexican War veteran, he commanded Confederate cavalry that recaptured Brownsville in July 1864. Defeated Union at Battle of Palmito Ranch trying to invade Mexico; this is where he learned that Civil War ended 3 months earlier.

5. ______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.

6. ______Confederate Army officer who fought in the Battle of Galveston. Part of the Red River Campaign where Confederate army routed the Union army. Killed in the Red River Campaign in April 1864. *verify online*

7. ______Second-highest ranking general in the Confederate army; Commanded troops in Tennessee where he was killed at the Battle of Shiloh in April 1862. His death was a severe blow to the Confederate Army.

8. ______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. Considered one of the best generals in all of history.

9. ______First Republican President of the U.S. His election in 1860 led to 7 southern states seceding. Felt the South had no legal right to leave the Union, because it was a Perpetual Union. 10. ______Governor of Texas in 1861; devoted much of his time as Governor to working for the Confederate war effort. He entered the Confederate army in 1863.

11. ______Confederate commander for Texas in 1863. Attacked Union forces in Jan 1863 and successfully retook the port of Galveston for the CSA.

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. ______A Texan who became the postmaster general of the CSA in President Davis’s cabinet in early 1861.

14. ______Commanded the Texas forces known as Hood’s Texas 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. *verify online*

15. ______Commander of the 3rd, 6th, 9th, and 27th Texas Cavalry regiments, known as Ross’s Brigade in the Civil War. Eventually became the 19th governor of Texas. *verify online and list of governors in textbook)

Chapter 16:

16. ______Appointed as provisional governor in June 1865 by President Andrew Johnson to replace Gov. Murrah after the collapse of the Texas state government.

17. ______Lincoln’s Vice President who became President after Lincoln was assassinated in April 1864. Wanted to carry out Lincoln’s original Presidential Reconstruction plan.

18. ______One of 8 delegates at the Texas Secession Convention of 1861 who voted against secession. 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.

19. ______Military commander of the 5th District (Texas/Louisiana) during Reconstruction in March 1867. His first action as Commander was to remove Gov. Throckmorton from office.

20. ______Appointed by 5th District Military commander to replace Governor Throckmorton in July 1867. Was a Unionist who supported the Republican’s goals in Congress.