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Worksheets8-5.2 The People of Reconstruction
Total questions: 11
Worksheet time: 6mins
Name
Class
Date
1.
Who was responsible for rebuilding the southern state economies after the war?
a)
The states
b)
Congress
c)
England
d)
Freedmen
2.
What did Southern States, like South Carolina, still depend on for their economy after the Civil War?
a)
Foreign investment
b)
Scalawag Labor
c)
Agriculture
d)
Manufacturing
3.
How did whites react to the 13th Amendment?
a)
Happy that the war was over
b)
Angry and violent towards freedmen
c)
Ignored it
d)
Sad :(
4.
What did the plantation owner provide in sharecropping?
a)
Nothing
b)
Seed and Tools
c)
Labor
d)
Just the Land
5.
What did the freedmen (former slave) provide in sharecropping?
a)
Nothing
b)
Seed and Tools
c)
Labor
d)
Just the Land
6.
Which of the following was NOT a problem with sharecropping?
a)
The endless cycle of debt
b)
former slaves were tied to the land
c)
It was a lot like slavery
d)
Freedmen made a lot of $$
7.
Small farmers who supported the Republicans to benefit politically and economically were called ___________.
a)
Scalawags
b)
Carpetbaggers
c)
Freedmen
d)
Tenant Farmers
8.
What is the name for northerners who moved to the South to work as teachers, missionaries, and entrepreneurs?
a)
Scalawags
b)
Carpetbaggers
c)
Freedmen
d)
Sharecroppers
9.
Which of the following BEST describes the daily lives of elite women in SC after the Civil War?
a)
Priviledge
b)
Men took care of them
c)
They held political power
d)
They began to do tasks formerly done by slaves.
10.
What right did the Constitution of 1868 give women?
a)
The Right to own property
b)
The Right to vote
c)
The Right to hold public office
d)
The Right to own Slaves
11.
What political party was made up of Freedmen, Scalawags, and Carpetbaggers?
a)
Republican
b)
Democrat
c)
Democratic-Republicans
d)
Socialist
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