Ch. 8 - Reconstruction

Which of the following was NOT a way the Civil War affected plantations and towns?

• Sherman's men burned cotton fields and stole livestock.

• Farmers plants food instead of cotton during the war so they didn't earn much money.

• The Union forced plantation owners to plant tobacco instead of cotton.

• Churches were destroyed.

Factories lost a lot of money during the Civil War because they produced:

• only the things needed by the Confederate army, and the Confederate government did not pay very much for them.

• too many products.

• products that were not useful for the Confederate army.

• products for the Union army, which didn't pay the factories.

Both armies destroyed railroad tracks, bridges, and roads to:

• make them look ugly.

• keep the enemy from moving their troops and supplies.

• stay busy in between fighting battles.

• keep slaves from running away.

Many people became sharecroppers after the Civil War, because:

• they like moving around

• our state's economy was in bad shape, and sharecropping was a way to survive.

• they liked working for other people instead of owning their own land.

• sharecropping was a way people could stay close to their hometowns.

What was Reconstruction?

• a plan to rebuild plantation owner's homes

• a way to get freed slaves their own land

• an idea that only African Americans could be sharecroppers

• a plan to rebuild the country after the Civil War

Which is one way white leaders tried to take away African Americans' rights?

• They passed the 14th Amendment.

• They voted for black leaders.

• They passed the Black Codes.

• They set up public schools.

The Constitution of 1868:

• gave everyone equal rights, every man the right to vote, and provided public education

• allowed women to vote

• said that all public schools had to be segregated

• created the Jim Crow Laws

The new public school created a problem because:

• there was not enough money to build them.

• nobody wanted to attend the new schools.

• black people wanted the schools to be segregated.

• white people wanted the schools to be segregated.

Which of the following does not describe the life of a sharecropper?

• A sharecropper was a farmer who worked land owned by someone else.

• Sharecroppers sold crops for money and paid rent to their landowners.

• Sharecroppers often went into debt and owed money for things so they were very poor.

• Sharecroppers were not allowed to learn to read and write.

How did Ben Tillman take away African Americans' right to vote?

• He wrote a new set of Black Codes called the Jim Crow Laws.

• He helped pass a law saying they could be captured and made slaves again.

• He helped write a new constitution that said that a man must be able to explain the constitution to vote.

• He burned down public schools that African Americans attended.