Homework Quiz for Tuesday, December 10th

What crop was considered, "king" during the Civil War and Reconstruction Era?

• Tobacco

• Rice

• Cotton

• Corn

Cotton was mostly sold for______ during the Reconstruction Era?

• cash

• food

• weapons

• none of these

Which crop decreased production around the reconstruction era due to Asia taking a larger share of the trade market?

• cotton

• wheat

• lumber

• rice

After the Civil War was over, many freedmen .......

• Became large plantation owners

• moved away from farming and into the city

• became GA legislators

• were imprisoned

What rumor spread throughout the south after the civil war?

• 40 mules and an acre

• an apple a day

• 40 acres and a mule

• 40 apples and 40 days

What union general tried to award newly freedmen abandoned land along the coast?

• William T. Sherman

• Andrew Johnson

• Andrew Jackson

• Ulysses S. Grant

Who was responsible for putting a halt on giving newly freedmen abandoned lands?

• William T. Sherman

• Abraham Lincoln

• Andrew Jackson

• Andrew Johnson

After the Civil War, landowners no longer were able to have:

• slaves

• free labor

• both of the above are true

• none of the above are true

Why was sharecropping and tenant farming largely practiced by newly freed men?

• They already knew how to farm

• They were held captive by their owners

• Farming made them lots of money

• They were not familiar with any other trade

Tenant farmers differed from sharecroppers in what way?

• Tenant farmers made much more profit than sharecroppers

• Tenant farmers made much less than sharecroppers

• Tenant farmers owned their mules and tools but sharecroppers owned nothing

• Tenant farmers did not have to pay rent to landowners