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Quiz for Document 16–1: Carl Schurz, Report on the Condition of the South, 1865

Choose the best answer to each question.

Document 16–1: Carl Schurz, Report on the Condition of the South, 1865

1. What did the demand for compensation for lost slave property suggest about the meaning of defeat and emancipation to slaveholders?

Southerners were unable to conceive of emancipation.

Southerners did not accept their defeat or emancipation.

Southerners felt thoroughly demoralized and defeated.

Southerners believed they had a lot in common with the North.

2. How did white Southerners perceive black labor after emancipation?

They believed all African Americans lacked work ethic.

They appreciated African Americans’ greater productivity than under slavery.

They felt that African Americans’ wages were too high.

They preferred employing black workers rather than white workers.

3. During Schurz’s tour, violence in the South

continued because many Southerners refused to surrender.

targeted isolated Northern soldiers and African Americans.

ceased as Southerners turned to rebuilding.

undermined agricultural production.