Question

1. Life in the South after the Civil War was changed forever, such as _____.

A. Women getting the right to vote

B. Former slaves getting the right to vote

C. All males from the age of 14 getting the right to vote

D. Native Americans getting the right to vote

Answer 1

After the Civil War, sharecropping and tenant farming took the place of slavery and the plantation system in the South. Sharecropping and tenant farming were systems in which white landlords (often former plantation slaveowners) entered into contracts with impoverished farm laborers to work their lands.

The Union's industrial and economic capacity soared during the war as the North continued its rapid industrialization to suppress the rebellion. In the South, a smaller industrial base, fewer rail lines, and an agricultural economy based upon slave labor made mobilization of resources more difficult

Explanation: A