Unit 3 Antebellum, Civil War, and Reconstruction

Why did Louisiana consider secession from the Union?

• Union had committed treason

• Political Impact

• Protection

• Economic Impact

"large plantations, long and hard work, expensive equipment, and such a quantity of men that anyone undertaking cultivation by day-laborers would be ruined within a year." What does this quote mean?

• Sugar was not a viable planting option due to its high opportunity costs.

• Slaves were a necessity if you were going to raise sugar as your cash crop.

• Day-laborers were a cost effective option for plantation owners in Louisiana.

• The cultivation of sugar would best be left to family farms.

The Confederate States of America did not have a government in the beginning. What is the best definition that applies to this scenario?

• Democracy

• Oligarchy

• Anarchy

• Secession

This political party wanted to preserve slavery

• Republicans

• Southern Democrats

• Constitutional Union

• Northern Democrats

What amendment allowed for slavery to be abolished?

• 13th
• 14th
• 15th
• 12th

What amendment allowed for Black Males to be able to vote?

• 15th
• 14th
• 13th
• 17th

The goal of the Anaconda Plan was

• to capture the capital of the Confederacy
• to keep supplies from entering New Orleans
• to capture Jefferson Davis anf force him to end war
• to gain control of Mississippi River and split Confederacy

Where was the longest siege of the Civil War?

• Baton Rouge
• New Orleans
• Port Hudson
• Vicksburg

Laws to restrict the freedom of former slaves

• sharecropping
• Black Codes
• abolishionists
• Freedmen

Northerners who came to the South during Reconstruction were often called "carpetbaggers" because they carried their belongings in a carpet bag.  Which of the following describes why the South despised the carpetbaggers so much?

• They added to heavily populated areas of the South that were already extrememly overcrowded by the end of the Civil War.
• They tried to make the cities in the South mirror the major cities in the North
• The used the destruction of the South for political and financial gain
• They stopped the South from organizing another rebellion against the North.