Reconstruction Era Part 3 Group A

Reconstruction Era Part 3 Group A

by Pasha Clark

Multiple Choice

1. After the Civil War, many freed slaves became_____.

• Farm owners

• Household servants

• Household servants

• Sharecroppers

Multiple Choice

2. How were landowners compensated (repaid) by sharecroppers?

• Sharecroppers collected rent from landowners.

• Sharecroppers let landowners use their equipment.

• Sharecroppers paid a portion of their profits.

• Sharecroppers and landowners worked for no profit.

Multiple Choice

3. Determine whether the statement is a characteristic of Sharecropping, tenant farming, or both. Laborers usually owned the equipment they used.

• Sharecropping

• Tenant Farming

• Sharecropping/Tenant Farming

Multiple Choice

4. Determine whether the statement is a characteristic of Sharecropping, tenant farming, or both. Laborers worked for landowners in exchange for land to farm.

• Sharecropping

• Tenant Framing

• Sharecropping/Tenant Farming

Multiple Choice

5. Determine whether the statement is a characteristic of Sharecropping, tenant farming, or both. Laborers provided a share of their crop to the landowner.

• Sharecropping

• Tenant Farming

• Sharecropping/Tenant Farming

Multiple Choice

6. Determine whether the statement is a characteristic of Sharecropping, tenant farming, or both. Laborers had no say in what crops they raised.

• Sharecropping

• Tenant Farming

• Sharecropping/Tenant Farming

Multiple Choice

7. Georgia depended on what agricultural product?

• Peanuts

• Peaches

• Onions

• Cotton

Multiple Choice

8. Due to the high demand for cotton, the Northerners help with sharecropping in Georgia to __________

• become leading producers of gold

• resume the mass production of cotton

• consolidate land into larger plantations

• transition to the production of finished goods.

Multiple Choice

9. Bonus- Cotton remained central to Georgia's economy, but manufacturing of textiles and weapons increased is affected by what war?

• Civil War

• French and Indian War

• Revolutionary War

• Battle of Jenkins' Ear

Multiple Choice

10. Bonus - Georgia's economy was based on what type of labor before the Civil War?

• paid workers

• immigrants

• slaves

• sharecroppers