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Reconstruction Of South Carolina

Quiz by Allyssa Early

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  • Q1
    Which is NOT a way the Civil War affected plantations and towns?
    Buildings were destroyed by cannons and fire.
    The Union forced plantation owners to plant tobacco instead of cotton.
    Farmers planted food instead of cotton during the war, so they didn’t earn much money.
    Sherman’s men burned cotton fields and stole livestock.
    30s
  • Q2
    After the war, factories
    were able to expand using all the Confederate money the army had paid them for making war supplies.
    were torn down and replaced by plantations.
    either went out of business or had been destroyed during the war.
    moved up north because they didn’t agree with the Emancipation Proclamation.
    30s
  • Q3
    What happened to the transportation system during the war?
    The additional soldiers in the state were able to make more roads improving travel.
    Roads were finally paved, putting an end to bumpy rides.
    Soldiers destroyed roads, bridges, and railroads to prevent the shipment of supplies.
    Soldiers who wanted the trees to look nice for Gen. Sherman took railroad ties and wrapped them around trees for decoration.
    30s
  • Q4
    Many people became sharecroppers after the Civil War because
    they liked moving around.
    our state’s economy was in bad shape, and sharecropping was a way to survive.
    they liked working for other people instead of owning their own land.
    sharecropping was a way people could stay close to their hometowns.
    30s
  • Q5
    What was Reconstruction?
    a plan to rebuild the country after the Civil War
    an idea that only African Americans could be sharecroppers
    a way to get freed slaves their own land
    a plan to rebuild plantation owners’ homes
    30s
  • Q6
    Which is one way white leaders tried to take away African Americans’ rights?
    They passed the Black codes.
    They voted for black leaders
    They set up public schools.
    They passed the Fourteenth Amendment.
    30s
  • Q7
    When South Carolina refused to treat African Americans as United States citizens after being told to do so by the federal government,
    Charleston harbor was taken over by the north.
    the federal government backed off and let South Carolina continue to treat freed African Americans badly.
    the army was sent into the state, and they stripped the power from state leaders putting a general in charge of the state.
    Abraham Lincoln came to the state and stripped the power away from state leaders.
    30s
  • Q8
    The _________________ recognized the rights of African Americans to be treated as citizens of the United States.
    Emancipation Proclamation
    14th Amendment
    15th Amendment
    Constitution Convention
    30s
  • Q9
    The state constitution had to be rewritten. Who participated in writing the new one?
    Only white leaders
    Black leaders and white leaders
    Whoever wanted to
    Only black leaders
    30s
  • Q10
    What was the Ku Klux Klan?
    A federal group that helped people get back on their feet after the war by giving them land and seeds to grow.
    A club for all men that sit around and talk about the Civil War.
    A school in the lower part of the state that opened its doors to all people, no matter how much money they had, or the color of their skin.
    A group of white men who threatened and killed African Americans and whites who supported them.
    30s
  • Q11
    How did Reconstruction end?
    The Federal Government withdrew from the state and South Carolina’s leaders were back in power.
    Reconstruction ended when shots were fired at Fort Sumter.
    They fired cannons in celebration at the State House damaging the outside of the building.
    South Carolinians ran the Federal Government out of the state and set up a blockade.
    30s
  • Q12
    What does it mean to segregate?
    to separate
    to fit
    to combine
    to bring together
    30s
  • Q13
    What were the Jim Crow Laws?
    Laws that limited the rights of blacks and kept them separated from the whites.
    Laws that freed all slaves of South Carolina.
    Laws that joined both blacks and whites of our state together.
    Laws put in place to protect the people of the state from Jim Crow.
    30s

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