Reconstruction Review

What impact did sharecropping have on the Southern economy after the Civil War?

• It significantly boosted the Southern economy by increasing agricultural productivity.

• It led to a diversified economy with less dependence on agriculture.

• It perpetuated a cycle of debt and poverty, hindering economic growth.

• It attracted foreign investments, leading to rapid industrialization.

How did sharecropping keep workers in poverty?

• Workers were paid high wages that were not enough to cover their living expenses.

• Workers often incurred debts to the landowner that grew over time, preventing them from making a profit.

• Workers were able to sell their crops at any price they wanted, which often led to financial losses.

• Workers were given too much land to manage, leading to inefficient farming and poor crop yields.

What was sharecropping?

• A system where workers were paid a fixed salary for their labor on the farms.

• A legal form of slavery where landowners provided land, tools, seeds, and money for food and supplies to very poor farmers in return for a share of the crop.

• A method of farming where farmers could buy their own land and work independently.

• A government program that allowed former slaves to own land without any conditions.

What did the 14th Amendment do?

• Gave African-Americans the right to vote

• Gave African-Americans full citizenship

• Abolished Slavery

What did the 14th Amendment require after the Civil War?

• Equal protection of the law, especially for those who had been enslaved.

• Segregation in education.

• Discrimination in transportation and housing.

• Equal rights only for immigrants.

The "Freedmen's Bureau" was to...

• provide food, shelter, clothing, medical services, and land to displaced Southerners, including newly freed African Americans

• To Provide a better shelter the president as well as help the local state fees

• makes all laws, declares war, regulates interstate and foreign commerce and controls taxing and spending policies.

• promote development within the member states through economic and political cooperation

What did the Reconstruction Act of 1867 accomplish?

• The act divided the South into five military districts.

• The act set a punishment for certain social behaviors.

• The act granted citizenship to anyone born in the US.

• The act limited the employment of African Americans.

How are the Wade-Davis Bill and Ten Percent plan similar? Click all that apply.

• Both of their goals were to help confederate states join the Union

• Both had to swear an oath of loyalty to the United States

• Both had to swear to ban slavery

• Both had to help the Union join the confederate states

Conditions of Lincoln's Reconstruction Plan

• Each person had to take an oath to be pardoned

• 10% of voters in state support the union

• make slavery illegal in their state.

• Southern states had never given up their right to govern themselves

• federal government had no right to determine voting requirements

The Black Codes were:

• laws which granted rights to former slaves

• laws which prevented discrimination against former slaves

• laws which denied U.S. citizenship to former slaves

• laws which limited the rights and freedoms of former slaves