RECONSTRUCTION 1865 1877
RECONSTRUCTIONS EFFECTS ON AFRICAN AMERICANS
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Question
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The legislature passed a law making fence-cutting a felony.
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Hurricane winds destroyed the area surrounding Galveston.
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Charles Goodnight created the first cattle ranch in the Texas Panhandle.
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The Secession Convention decided that Texas should withdraw from the Union.
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Detailed explanation-1: -Texas formally seceded on March 2, 1861 to become the seventh state in the new Confederacy. Gov. Sam Houston was against secession, and struggled with loyalties to both his nation and his adopted state. His firm belief in the Union cost him his office when he refused to take an oath of allegiance to the new government.
Detailed explanation-2: -As the United States was torn apart by divisions over whether slavery could expand into the nation’s western territories, Texas in 1861 voted to secede from the Union.
Detailed explanation-3: -The Secession Convention reassembled on March 5, declared Texas independent, took further steps to join it to the Confederacy, and reorganized the state’s government. In doing this it declared that all current officeholders must swear a loyalty oath to the Confederacy.