SS Weekly Week 20 Review

According to the story, what was the most likely reason many Northerners did not agree with Lincoln’s plan for reconstruction?

• They felt the president's plan was too easy on Southerners.

• They did not feel the war had yet come to an end

• They wanted all of the slaves to be able to come and live in the North.

• They thought Congress should be allowed to make all rules regarding Reconstruction plans.

What was one result of the Emancipation Proclamation?

• Freedmen were not prepared to deal with life away from slavery

• President Lincoln wanted the war to end.

• Congress gave permission to Northerners to take control of all former slaves.

• Former slaves were taken to live in the North.

What was most likely the greatest problem facing the South following the Civil War?

• There were no Northerners anywhere in the United States who really wanted the South to be allowed to come back into the Union

• President Lincoln had issued the Emancipation Proclamation, but many of the Southerners refused to release their slaves

• Most people who lived in the South wanted to move to the North, but they did not have the money to do so

• The South was devastated, and the people struggled to deal with loss, sickness and death.

Which statement about President Lincoln’s death is best supported by information from this week’s issue?

• John Wilkes Booth acted alone in his assassination of Lincoln

• President Lincoln knew that his life was in danger before he went to the theater.

• The men responsible for Lincoln’s assassination were never caught.

• John Wilkes Booth assassinated Lincoln because he was upset with the results of the Civil War.

Which of the following best completes the diagram above?

• never ratified by any state

• Southern states required to ratify

• gave all men the right to vote

• protected civil rights of women

What would be the best new title for the subsection called “Black Codes”?

• To Vote or Not to Vote?

• Life in the South

• A Return to Slavery?

• Farming as a Way of Life

What is the most likely reason Congress passed the 15th Amendment?

• Leaders knew freed slaves were not truly free unless they had the right to vote.

• Congress wanted to make President Johnson happy.

• The 14th Amendment could not be passed without it.

• It was a better amendment than the first 14.

What is the most likely reason the Southern soldiers’ homes and communities were destroyed when they returned from the Civil War?

• Their wives had not taken good care of their property while they were gone

• The farmland had gone bad during the war which made farming impossible

• There had been a large forest fire during the time they were away.

• The fighting during the war had mostly been fought in Southern territory.

Use the article “Sharecropping in the South”and your knowledge of social studies to answer the following question. What is the main idea of the information in the article?

• Droughts make raising crops difficult

• Sharecropping was a difficult way to make a living

• Sharecroppers were mostly freedmen

• Wealthy landowners allowed freedmen and poor whites to sharecrop on their land.

Why did Southerners have such a dislike of both carpetbaggers and scalawags?

• They believed both groups did not have the best interest of the South at heart

• They wanted the carpetbaggers to give them more money.

• They felt the scalawags should go live in the North.

• They did not like the luggage that the people carried when they moved to the South.