CIVIL WAR

1850-TEXAS NEEDS MONEY

• Texas sold its land for 10 million dollars for their dept
• They sold parts of New Mexico Kansas Oklahoma Colorado and Wyoming.
• The settlers caused problems for the Native American because settlers were driving away and killing animals that caused problems for the native Americans to eat and trade
• Texans were consumers so slaves had to to help with consuming their products
• Texas agreed to sell their land because the state needed money

1860

• AbrAham Lincoln elected president of the United States
• More than 1 in every four texans was in a slaved African American
• People in the south were afraid to give up there slaves
• They made plans to separate from the rest of the U.S
• South Carolina secedes

MARCH 2, 1861

• Texas joined the confederate state
• The confederate included 7 states
• The first state to join the confederate was South Carolina
• Jefferson Davison was a president of the confederate
• Robert E. Lee was the confederate general

NOVEMBER 1860

• Abraham Lincoln was elected president
• Abraham Lincoln was against slavery
• The southerners were worried congress was going to band slavery

APRIL 12, 1861

• There was a war between the confederate(south)and the union (north
• Some family's had to kill each other because they were on different sides
• More than 60,000 people fought in the war
• About more unions died than confederate
• The union states had much larger population than the confederate

OCTOBER 1862

• Union ships tried to capture Galveston Harbor
• General John B. Magruder,had recaptured the port

SEPTEMBER 8, 1863

• Union ships tried to capture Sabine pass
• They damaged two ships
• The union was defeated at the battle of Laredo
• The highest ranking Confederate person defeated them
• Confederate soldiers In a fort died at enemy ships

MAY 13 1865

• The last battle of Civil war was started
• They clashed at palmetto ranch near Brownsville

APRIL 9, 1865

• The union won the civil war
• Abraham Lincoln had issued the emancipation proclaimation
• All slaves were free
• It took ten years for the north and the south to get back together
• There was a new rule that will help slaves find jobs and homes

JUNE 19, 1865

• Gordon Granger announced that all slaves on Texas are free
• For the next 6 weeks,Gorden announced the news to people all over Texas
• The master needed to call up all of the news
• A new problem came,what would the slaves do if they had no money

MARCH 30,1870

• Texas rejoins the union
• The United States flag flew over Austin again
• Many Anglo Americans in Texas did not support the new governor
• They thought he spent to much state money
• And was to eager to help African Americans