The Aftermath of the War

Question 1

Who became president after Abraham Lincoln was assassinated?

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Andrew Johnson

Question 2

How did the end of slavery affect life in the South?

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It led to a new labor system.

Question 3

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

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sharecropping

Question 4

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

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sharecropping.

Question 5

Which of the following received federal government pensions after the end of the Civil War?

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Union veterans

Question 6

Following Lincoln’s assassination, the emancipation of enslaved people became official when

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states ratified the Thirteenth Amendment.

Question 7

A similarity between slavery and sharecropping was that

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neither system paid its workers a wage.

Question 8

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

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family life

Question 9

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 10

Abraham Lincoln was assassinated

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after the end of the Civil War.

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