Ch 10, Lesson 2 Quiz

One reason that the South suffered financial losses after the Civil War was that _______________.

• railroads and shipping ports were rebuilt

• landowners owned only small farms

• farmers could not find buyers for their crops

• Confederate money was not recognized

Many Southern plantation owners rented land to workers known as _______________.

• carpetbaggers

• tenant farmers

• servants

• orphans

Frederick Douglass is known mostly for _______________.

• being an abolitionist

• fighting for women's rights

• coming from the South

• helping Chinese immigrants

Read the passage. Then answer the question.

Frederick Douglass was born to enslaved workers in Maryland in 1818. It was illegal for enslaved workers to read and write. When he was eight, Douglass secretly learned how to read. He escaped from slavery in 1838. Douglass began to attend abolitionist meetings. He was an excellent speaker and writer and spoke out against slavery. He published his own newspaper, the North Star. He attended meetings to work to give women the right to vote. He was a trusted adviser to Abraham Lincoln.

Why was Frederick Douglas knowledgeable to speak against slavery?

• He was an abolitionist.

• He owned a newspaper.

• He was born into slavery and escaped.

• He worked for President Lincoln.

Read the passage. Then answer the question.

Frederick Douglass was born to enslaved workers in Maryland in 1818. It was illegal for enslaved workers to read and write. When he was eight, Douglass secretly learned how to read. He escaped from slavery in 1838. Douglass began to attend abolitionist meetings. He was an excellent speaker and writer and spoke out against slavery. He published his own newspaper, the North Star. He attended meetings to work to give women the right to vote. He was a trusted adviser to Abraham Lincoln.

Douglass's paper, The North Star, most likely focused on _______________.

• how to teach reading

• making slavery illegal

• women's fashion

• the benefits of plantation life

_______________ farmers rented land that they worked.

Many factory owners in the North started making supplies during the war and made a _______________.

_______________ is a system of working the land in return for a share of the crops that are raised.

Who left a legacy with their leadership that will long be remembered?

• Abraham Lincoln

• Robert E. Lee

• Frederick Douglass

• all of the above

Between 1865 and the early 1870s, more than _______________ miles of railroad track were laid in the South.

• 80

• 800

• 8,000

• 80,000