13. Document Projects for Exploring American Histories, Document Project 13: Home Front Protest during the Civil War

**Quiz for Document 13.1: John Beauchamp Jones, The Richmond Bread Riot (1866)**

Quiz for Document 13.1: John Beauchamp Jones, The Richmond Bread Riot (1866)

Select the best answer for each question. Click the “submit” button for each question to turn in your work.

1. According to John Beauchamp Jones, the protesters described in this article were motivated to protest and engage in looting by

the Union’s capture of the South’s factories, distribution centers, and railroads.

shop-owners who amassed the available supplies and charged exorbitant prices for them.

the Confederate army’s right of first access to the South’s available food supplies.

the Confederate government’s refusal to institute rationing to manage the region’s economy.

2. Why did the protesters in the Richmond bread riot consist mainly of women and boys?

White southern men believed that food acquisition and cooking were solely women’s work.

White southern women were not allowed to leave home without a male protector.

Most nonwealthy southern white men had been conscripted into the army.

Southern men were less hungry because they had first rights to a family’s available food.

3. According to Jones, how did President Jefferson Davis attempt to deter the rioters?

He threatened death by hanging for the boys and the women.

He threatened to forcibly expel the rioters from the city.

He urged them to suffer the difficulties of war with courage.

He promised to compile a list of participants and provide them with food.

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