The Aftermath of the War Answers

Who became president after Abraham Lincoln was assassinated?

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

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

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

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

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

A similarity between slavery and sharecropping was that

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

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

Abraham Lincoln was assassinated

The assassination of President Lincoln in 1865 proved that

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

Which statement best describes the obstacles the United States faced after the Civil War?

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