The Aftermath of the War

Which of the following received federal government pensions after the end of the Civil War?

• manufacturing companies in the South

• Union veterans

• manufacturing companies in the North

After the Civil War, the Northern economy was

• far stronger than the Southern economy

• greatly damaged by the destruction of its cities.

• strengthened by the abolition of slavery.

How did the end of slavery affect life in the South?

• It led to a new labor system.

• It led to a new labor system.

• It made farming easier.

Which of the following most helped the North recover more quickly than the South from the Civil War?

• political advantages

• economic advantages

• Jim Crow laws

Which statement best describes the obstacles the United States faced after the Civil War?

• The North faced many rebuilding challenges in its cities, while the South rebuilt its cities quickly.

• The North faced severe economic problems, while the South faced severe social problems.

• Though both regions suffered due to the war, the South fared much worse than the North.

Once enslaved labor was abolished, Southern landowners replaced it with a system called

• sharecropping.

• land division

• land division

Sharecropping tied newly freed African Americans to someone else’s land by

• forcing them to give up income from the land.

• forcing them back into working as enslaved labor.

• keeping them in constant debt.

A similarity between slavery and sharecropping was that

• neither system required workers to pay landowners.

• both systems paid their workers a very low wage.

• neither system paid its workers a wage

Which of the following improved significantly for freed African Americans after the Civil War?

• family life

• social equality

• economic opportunities

Which of the following best describes how workers in the South were affected by the sharecropping system?

• They were forced into factory work to pay their debts.

• They used credit to buy supplies at high interest rates

• They bought land that they had to live on and farm.