Instructor ESources PowerPoint Presentation Chapter 5 Statehood, Secession, and Civil War

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Instructor E-SourcesPowerPoint Presentation
Chapter 5Statehood, Secession, and Civil War

• The History of Texas
• Harlan Davidson, Inc.

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Learning Outcomes (5)

• think about the implications for Texas throughout
  the 1830s, 1840s and 1850s as southerners
  migrated insignificant numbers,
• understand the political process encompassing the
  slavery issue that brought vast economic and
  social changes to the south,
• discuss the role that Texas played in the Civil
  War.

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Chapter 5Union and Disintegration

• An ethnically culturally diverse people
• Immigrants from the Lower South
• Immigrants from the Upper South
• Demographic Growth
• Slavery
• The politics of sectionalism

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The Texas Economy at Midcentury

• Rural growth
• Land policy
• A plantation economy
• Slavery
• Plantation elite
• Small farmers
• Urban Industrialization
• Commerce the port of Galveston
• Infant industries
• Transportation

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Texas Society at Midcentury

• Inequality the egalitarian myth
• Black Texans
• Free Blacks
• Slaves
• Mexican Americans
• American Indians
• Comanches
• Settler clashes

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Texas Society at Midcentury
Leñeros, Tejano wood hauler, with donkeys
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Texas Society at Midcentury

• Demographic patterns
• Women
• Liberating frontier?
• Male-dominated culture
• Education
• the perpetual school fund
• A university endowment
• Newspapers Literature
• Religion

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Texas Politics at Midcentury

• Sectional troubles
• Slavery the compromise of 1850
• New Mexico territory, indemnity, public debt
• Whigs, Democrats, Know-Nothings, Republicans
• 1859 a tumultuous year
• Disintegration
• The secession debate
• Governor Houston
• Texans the Confederate States of America

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Texas the Civil War

• Who wanted War?
• The Texas Front
• War on the Texas frontier
• Protecting the Texas coast
• The Confederate Front
• The Texas Rangers
• Hoods Texas Brigade
• Texas cotton the CSA economy
• Internal dissent

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The Confederates evacuating Brownsville, Texas
sketched by an English artist
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Union soldiers on Elizabeth Street in
Brownsville, Texas Drawing from a photograph
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Texas the Civil War

• Behind the lines
• Mobilization recruitment
• Unionist sentiment
• Black seeking freedom
• Confederate Texans ethnic violence
• Texas at Civil Wars end
• An uncertain future
• Legal slavery dead
• The rough road to Reconstruction

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Key Words Terms (5)

• Texas Preemption Act
• H. L. Kinney
• Richard King
• Mifflin Kenedy
• Juan Nepomuceno Cortina
• Major Robert Simpson Neighbors
• John S. Rip Ford
• Melinda Rankin
• Elise Waerenskjold
• Telegraph and Texas Register
• New Braunfels Zeitung
• El Bejareno (San Antonio)
• Henderson K. Yoakum

• Juan N. Seguin
• Ferdinand Roemer
• peculiar institution
• Whigs
• Know-Nothings
• Constitutional Union party
• Secession
• Brigadier General David E. Twiggs
• Lt. Richard W. Dowling
• Albert Sidney Johnston
• Francis R. Lubbock
• Pendleton Murrah
• Santos Benavides