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Who benefited most from the system of sharecropping? (5-1.4)
a) African Americans
b) Freedmen
c) Landowners
d) Poor white men

How did Reconstruction affect the plantation system of the South? (5-1.4)
a) The plantation system was ruined
b) Factories replaced all plantations in the South
c) All plantations were taken over by the government
d) The plantation system became stronger than ever

How did Reconstruction affect African Americans and poor white Southerners economically? (5-1.4)
a) They were no longer in poverty
b) They were able to buy land and grow crops
c) They had total control over crops and money
d) They were dependent upon landowners for land and credit

Which statement best summarizes the effect of Reconstruction (5-1.4)
a) It had the same effect on all people in the South and in each region of the US
b) It had different effects on various populations of people in the South and other parts US
c) It had no social, political, or economic effects on people in the South and in the US
d) It only had political effects on people in the South there were no social/economic effects

This person or groups's aim for Reconstruction was to preserve the Union and end the civil war quickly.
a) President Lincoln
b) President Johnson
c) Congress
d) Ku Klux Klan

This population of people felt that freedom meant that they could leave the plantation to do whatever type of work they wanted to support their families.
a) Northern Republicans
b) Southern Democrats
c) white land owners
d) African Americans

African Americans gained some social independence by agreeing to work
a) as a sharecropper
b) as a slave
c) as a landowner
d) in the landowners Big House

This population was the poor whites who cooperated with the Republican government in the South
a) scalawags
b) carpetbaggers
c) white Northerners
d) white land owners

This population was also kept economically dependent on white landowners during sharecropping.
a) Southern elite
b) poor whites
c) Congress
d) Northern whites

Southerners accused these people of taking advantage of the war-torn South in order to cheat people out of their money.
a) Scalawags
b) African Americans
c) Poor Whites
d) Carpetbaggers

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