8-5.2 The People of Reconstruction

Who was responsible for rebuilding the southern state economies after the war?

• The states
• Congress
• England
• Freedmen

What did Southern States, like South Carolina, still depend on for their economy after the Civil War?

• Foreign investment
• Scalawag Labor
• Agriculture
• Manufacturing

How did whites react to the 13th Amendment? 

• Happy that the war was over
• Angry and violent towards freedmen
• Ignored it
• Sad :(

What did the plantation owner provide in sharecropping?

• Nothing
• Seed and Tools
• Labor
• Just the Land

What did the freedmen (former slave) provide in sharecropping?

• Nothing
• Seed and Tools
• Labor
• Just the Land

Which of the following was NOT a problem with sharecropping?

• The endless cycle of debt
• former slaves were tied to the land
• It was a lot like slavery
• Freedmen made a lot of $$

Small farmers who supported the Republicans to benefit politically and economically were called ___________.

• Scalawags
• Carpetbaggers
• Freedmen
• Tenant Farmers

What is the name for northerners who moved to the South to work as teachers, missionaries, and entrepreneurs? 

• Scalawags
• Carpetbaggers
• Freedmen
• Sharecroppers

Which of the following BEST describes the daily lives of elite women in SC after the Civil War?  

• Priviledge
• Men took care of them
• They held political power
• They began to do tasks formerly done by slaves.

What right did the Constitution of 1868 give women?

• The Right  to own property
• The Right to vote
• The Right to hold public office
• The Right to own Slaves