The Aftermath of the War

Question 1

Who became president after Abraham Lincoln was assassinated?

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Andrew Johnson

Question 2

Which of the following most helped the North recover more quickly than the South from the Civil War?

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economic advantages

Question 3

Which of the following improved significantly for freed African Americans after the Civil War?

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family life

Question 4

Which of the following made it difficult for the South to treat freed African Americans equally?

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sharecropping

Question 5

A similarity between slavery and sharecropping was that

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neither system paid its workers a wage.

Question 6

What did Booth believe would result from the Lincoln’s assassination?

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the Republicans would lose power

Question 7

Sharecropping tied newly freed African Americans to someone else’s land by

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keeping them in constant debt.

Question 8

Abraham Lincoln was assassinated

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after the end of the Civil War.

Question 9

Once enslaved labor was abolished, Southern landowners replaced it with a system called

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sharecropping.

Question 10

The assassination of President Lincoln in 1865 proved that

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Southerners still held many of the resentments that had caused the Civil War.

The Aftermath of the War Answers