Civil War and Reconstruction

What effect did the system of sharecropping have on the South after the Civil War?

• It kept formerly enslaved persons economically dependent.

• It brought investment capital to the South.

• It encouraged Northerners to migrate south

• It provide for a fairer distribution of farm profits.

What system helped ensure that African Americans remained poor and virtually locked of any opportunity for land ownership after the Civil War?

• Black Codes

• Sharecropping

• Jim Crow Laws

• Segregation

Which of the following is NOT an example of a Jim Crow practice put into place to disenfranchise blacks

• Poll tax

• Grandfather clause

• Literacy tests

• Sharecropping

The___ amendment abolished slavery in the United States

The ___ amendment erases the supreme courts “Dred Scott” decision (which said slaves do not have rights). This Amendment grants citizenship to all persons bon in the U.S. regardless of race.

The 15th amendment gives all American men the right to Vote. Regardless of race or color or “previous condition of servitude”(that means slavery)

• True

• False

Which is not a true statement about life after the Civil War?

• Amendments were added to the Constitution to reinforce the end of slavery.

• Lingering prejudices in the South led to the passage of Jim Crow laws.

• Former slaves often became miners

• The Freedman’s Bureau was created to help the newly freed slaves to make the transition to new ways of living.

All of the statements below show positive effects of Reconstruction in the South except?

• development of public school system

• more rights for free slaves

• rebuilding of towns and cities

• more workers on plantations

Which Civil War battle is considered one of the bloodiest, set in Pennsylvania, and is credited as a major turning point for the Union in the war against the Confederacy

• Battle of Atlanta

• Ft. Sumter

• Battle of Gettysburg

• Sherman’s March to the Sea

Fort Sumter, located in Charleston, South Carolina was the site of the first shots fired in the Civil War.

• True

• False